The European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope has detected "a scar imprinted on the surface" of white dwarf star WD 0816-310. Credit: ESO ...

Scientists observed the earliest signs of a new solar system forming around HOPS-315, revealing how planets emerge from dust ...

“What we’ve been trying to do is find a baby version of our Solar System somewhere else,” Merel van’t Hoff, an astronomer at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, tells Nature’s Jenna Ahart.

Astronomers have spotted the birth of a new solar system for the very first time ever. Using the ALMA telescope, in which the ...

Previously, astronomers have observed giant planets, like Jupiter, forming in the giant discs around young stars. According ...

Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming around a baby sun-like star, an unprecedented ...

The astronomers observed hot minerals just beginning to solidify – the first specks of planet-forming material, the ...

Very massive stars (VMSs) have had a massive impact on the formation of our universe. However, there aren't very many of them ...

Abstract: EMSO, an ESFRI large-scale Research Infrastructure (European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures Roadmap), is the European-scale network of multidisciplinary seafloor and water column ...

ESONET proposes a network of sea floor observatories around the European Ocean margin from the Arctic Ocean to the Black Sea for strategic long term monitoring as part of the European GMES (global ...

A new observatory is coming on-line and, in its own way, is going to have an impact similar to what we are seeing with the James Webb Space Telescope.

Using the European Southern Observatory’s accurately named Very Large Telescope and working with researchers internationally, the scientists quickly found signs of a past double detonation.