A planet has been discovered orbiting the closest single star to our Sun. Using the European Southern Observatory’s Very ...

The map consists of 13 years of work totaling 200,000 images, thanks to the European Southern Observatory's VISTA telescope.

Barnard's star is a red dwarf, the smallest type of regular star and much smaller and less luminous than our sun. At about 6 ...

The single nearest star to the Sun—which is to say, the closest star moving independent from a star system—has at least one ...

This rocky planet, discovered with the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope in Chile, is smaller than Earth, ...

"Do you feel lost looking at this Picture of the Week?" European Southern Observatory (ESO) wrote in a statement accompanying ...

The world—which orbits Barnard's Star, just six light-years from us—has a year that lasts barely three Earth days.

The map consists of 200,000 images taken over 13 years using the European Southern Observatory's VISTA telescope.

Barnard’s star is a red dwarf about six light-years away from our sun and six light-years away from Earth. It is considered ...

Beyond our solar system, countless alien worlds of lava, ice, water and noxious gas swirl through the cosmos. Here are some ...

Astronomers have detected an exoplanet around Barnard’s star, one of the sun’s closest neighbours, but it is too hot for ...

Astronomers have published a gigantic infrared map of the Milky Way containing more than 1.5 billion objects -- the most detailed one ever made. Using the European Southern Observatory's VISTA ...