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

In a few billion years, our Sun will become so violently hot that it could wipe out all life in the Milky Way. Yet, ...

MOST telescope can measure the light of nearly 2,500 celestial objects at a time Scientists are celebrating a new era of ...

According to the equations that govern black holes, the larger one of these cosmic behemoths is the lower its average density ...

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

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

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

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

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: ...

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

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

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