A brilliant comet waved its tail above the site of the world's largest telescope as it lit up the night sky last month.

After a blue dwarf galaxy shot through it like an arrow, the large Bullseye now has nine rings—six more than any other galaxy ...

HWO will be the first space telescope built to find potentially habitable planets and analyze their atmospheres for signs of ...

The Vatican Observatory’s summer school, known as “Specola,” has already selected students for its next edition. During the month of June, 25 students who were selected from among 120 ...

Enrico Chesta, Véronique Ferlet-Cavrois and Markus Brugger highlight seven ways CERN and ESA are working together to further ...

Should the asteroid remain on a collision path, it would likely have a velocity of 17.34 km/sec. (10.7 mph/sec.) when first ...

AVS announced Jan. 30 that it won a study contract for the initial phases of the ARRAKIHS mission, an ESA F-Class, or fast, astrophysics mission. The mission, whose full name is Analysis of ...

In mid-January 2025, the ESA (European Space Agency) and NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) watched comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) pass about 8 million miles from the Sun. In this image sequence, ...

According to the ESA, it will fade from Earth’s view over the next few months. In the meantime, international astronomers will attempt to study the asteroid with the European Southern Observatory’s ...

Russian boffins want to nuke asteroids ESA starts work on planetary defense mission ... the NEO to determine its orbit as exactly as possible. The European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope ...