11 September 2020
New data suggests there is something missing from dark matter theories
... findings, the team followed up with additional spectroscopic data from the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile and were able to identify dozens of multiply imaged, lensed, background galaxies; multiple images of the...
05 October 2020
A dozen "superhabitable" planets better than Earth identified in new study
... that we know of so far. It stands to reason then, that in the search for life elsewhere in the Universe, our telescopes are trained on hunting for other Earth-like worlds that are of a similar size and orbit a Sun...
19 November 2021
New mission to search for habitable planets close to Earth announced
... Alpha Centauri from antiquity, TOLIMAN stands for Telescope for Orbit Locus Interferometric Monitoring of our Astronomical... and colleagues are hoping that TOLIMAN will be the telescope to finally determine if any habitable exoplanets reside close ...
10 December 2021
Extreme exoplanet changes the picture about massive stars as planet hosts
...been imaged more than 20 years ago by the ESO 3.6-m telescope, though it was not recognised as a planet at the ...upgrades planned for the VLT, and when ESO’s Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) starts observations later this decade, astronomers may be able...
17 October 2019
Hubble gets a good look at interstellar visitor Comet 2I/Borisov
... the Solar System’s building blocks, and this is very remarkable,” said Amaya Moro-Martin of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland. Hubble photographed the comet at a distance of approximately 420 million kilometres from Earth...
22 July 2020
Astronomers capture the first ever image of a multi-planet system around a Sun-like star
... around a Sun-like star. ESO’s VLT was also the first telescope to directly image an exoplanet, back in 2004, when it captured ...system, including with the future ESO Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), will enable astronomers to test whether these...
