For a century, exoplanet hunters have “discovered” planets around a nearby star, only to retract the claims. But the latest ...

Los esfuerzos de SDG&E para prevenir incendios forestales no han eliminado completamente los incendios desde 2007. El ...

The European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope has detected "a scar imprinted on the surface" of white dwarf star ...

Astrophysicist Suzanna Randall explains where the elements in our body come from in this episode of "Starlight" from the ...

Israel has killed two senior leaders of the Islamic Jihad terror organisation as it intensifies its air strikes in Syria.

It was studied along with other galaxies like the nearby NGC 3109, shown above, to learn how galaxies form, as part of a project called The VLT Survey Telescope Survey of Mass Assembly and Structural ...

Portugal is the latest country in Europe to seek to tackle a brain drain holding back its economy. Tax breaks for young workers in the budget currently going through parliament will take effect next ...

The Italian National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF) releases today the images of five galaxies in the local Universe, ...

BY CHRIS WADIBIAOriginally published by SEEN&UNSEEN, a project of the Centre for Cultural Witness. Reprinted with permission. Just as every coin has two sides, every soul contains the eq ...

This image of the Milky Way galaxy was captured by the European Southern Observatory (ESO) at the Paranal Observatory in Chile, in collaboration with NASA. This image of the Milky Way, created by NASA ...

A team led by Dante Minniti and including Vatican Observatory scholars maps the Milky Way in stunning detail. Built from ...

Richard D’Souza, S.J. Minniti, an astrophysicist at Universidad Andrés Bello in Chile, and the team of over 100 researchers produced the map from 200,000 images taken by the European Southern ...