14 November 2018
Super-Earth exoplanet found around closest single star to the Sun
... capable of noticing that a stars velocity has slowed by the walking pace of a human – a tiny 3.5 kilometres an hour – but ESO’s planet-hunting HARPS instrument is one of them and its unprecedented accuracy helped the team to spot the...
17 July 2019
New measurement deepens mystery of Universe’s expansion rate
... Hubble fields. The red giants are identified by yellow circles. Image: NASA, ESA, W. Freedman (University of Chicago), ESO, and the Digitized Sky Survey.
26 July 2019
Three massive black holes caught in the act of merging
When astronomers made the first observation of a binary black hole merger in February 2016, it was not just gravitational waves that were caught rippling through Earth; a wave of feverish excitement reserved for only the most spectacular of ...
04 October 2019
Have ancient filaments helped uncover the nature of dark matter?
... 12 billion light years away in the early Universe. Using the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) at the ESO Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile and the Suprime-Cam at the Subaru telescope, the team’s detailed...
04 December 2019
Giant planet found orbiting a white dwarf for the first time
... atmospheric layers of icy, giant planets like Neptune and Uranus Follow-up observations using the X-Shooter instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope, led the team to discover that these elements were in a disc of gas swirling into...
14 September 2020
Possible signs of microbial life found in Venus' atmosphere
..., say the team. “Ultimately, a solution could come from revisiting Venus for in situ measurements..,” they add. ESO astronomer and ALMA European Operations Manager Leonardo Testi, who did not participate in the new study...
