An unusual elliptical galaxy with a history of absorbing smaller galaxies appears to be approaching its next target.
"If you want to take the stairs and walkways from the entrance of the ELT's dome all the way up to the top, you need about 30 minutes." ...
Image an alien planet where savage winds rip through the atmosphere carrying molten iron and titanium particles. Such a ...
Astronomers have mapped, for the first time, the three-dimensional structure of an exoplanet’s atmosphere, revealing ...
Located 900 light-years away in the constellation Puppis, WASP-121b is an ultra-hot Jupiter, a gas giant orbiting its star so closely that a year lasts just 30 Earth hours. One side of the planet is ...
Astronomers have unlocked a new way to explore alien worlds by mapping the 3D structure of an exoplanet’s atmosphere for the ...
Astronomers have peered through the atmosphere of a planet beyond the Solar System, mapping its 3D structure for the first ...
It is so ferociously hot that the “exoplanet” features iron in the form of a gas in one layer of its atmosphere, while a jet ...
Researchers have peered into the atmosphere of planet WASP-121b and found its climate is stranger than anyone imagined.
The driest place on Earth is the best place to observe the universe, with darkness offering dazzling spectacles of cosmic ...
Close up of the stairways up to the top of ESO's Extremely Large Telescope in Chile's Atacama Desert. | Credit: ESO/G. Vecchia These mirrors will allow astronomers to peer into the cosmos like ...