The image of Luke Skywalker gazing wistfully across the desert of Tatooine while a pair of “suns” set on the horizon is among ...

The MUSE instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) monitored asteroid Dimorphos post-NASA DART impact. See the evolution ...

Astronomers have discovered a strikingly unusual exoplanet: one which orbits its host stars in a totally new way. The planet ...

This galaxy's central black hole appears to be a "messy eater" as its interstellar scraps are strewn into space.

Image of the asteroid 2024 YR4 taken by ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) in January 2025 ... If we wanted to perform a repeat of NASA's DART mission, which successfully deflected a small asteroid ...