The universe is truly magical: vast, mysterious, and endlessly fascinating. There’s something almost unreal about being able ...

Email: rdejong@aip.de Joar Brynnel, 4MOST project manager, Phone: +49 (0)331 7499 310 Email: jbrynnel@aip.de 4MOST Press & Media Kit: Photo and Video Documention: 4MOST website: ...

First images of light from objects in the Universe are now recorded and split into thousands of colour components4MOST will investigate the formation ...

The Habitable Worlds Observatory is poised to tell us whether Earth-like planets are common—if it can get off the ground ...

The 4-metre Multi-Object Spectroscopic Telescope (4MOST) facility, installed on the VISTA telescope at the European Southern ...

Exoplanet hunters Christopher Watson and Annelies Mortier explain the long search for a 'twin Earth' capable of sustaining ...

Scientists are developing PoET, a new EU-funded solar telescope, to overcome stellar noise hindering the search for ...

Even astronomers who study peculiar outer space objects have their favorites. Here are some interstellar bodies that have won ...

On October 6 1995, at a scientific meeting in Florence, Italy, two Swiss astronomers made an announcement that would transform our understanding of the universe beyond our solar system. Michel Mayor ...

For decades, astronomers have been awed by Saturn’s ring beauty. But a tiny, icy wanderer drifting between Saturn and Uranus ...

The number of confirmed planets outside of our solar system—known as exoplanets—has risen to 6,000, NASA has said. There is huge variety across these distant worlds, the space agency says, with ...

After marking the 30th anniversary of the discovery of the first exoplanet around a sun-like star, we now look forward to ...