The Very Large Telescope's SPHERE instrument captured unprecedented images of 51 dusty rings shaping young planetary systems.

Astronomers have captured images of two stellar explosions—known as novae—within days of their eruption and in unprecedented ...

Stars form in massive clouds of gas called molecular clouds. As they form, they accrete gas from these clouds, and as the ...

SPHERE’s detailed images of dusty rings around young stars offer a rare glimpse into the hidden machinery of planet formation ...

In this visualization of stars observed by ESA's Gaia mission, the "frequency of the rotating and pulsating stars was ...

A Texas Tech Assistant Astronomy Professor, Elias Aydi, along with other astronomers, used a cutting-edge technique to ...

December nights are the longest — and often some of the coldest — of the year. While some may dread December’s darkness, ...

Astronomers have captured unprecedented, detailed images of two stellar explosions—known as novae—within days of their ...

December nights are the longest — and often some of the coldest — of the year. While some may dread December’s darkness, ...

New technology is helping astronomers open new windows into novae, stellar explosions that can act as 'laboratories for ...

While synchrotron radiation is often thought of as "stable," the electromagnetic field exhibits pronounced randomly ...

The final integration of the telescope's major observatory components took place on Nov. 25 inside NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, where engineers brought together the ...