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

Using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO's VLT), astronomers have discovered an exoplanet orbiting ...

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.

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 ...

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

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

Astronomers have discovered the existence of Barnard b, a new exoplanet orbiting Barnard’s star, the second closest stellar ...

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 ...