For Halloween, the European Southern Observatory (ESO) reveals this spooktacular image of a dark nebula that creates the illusion of a wolf-like silhouette against a colorful cosmic backdrop.

This image depicts 42 of the largest objects in the asteroid belt, located between Mars and Jupiter. Most of them are larger than 100 kilometres, with the two biggest asteroids being Ceres and Vesta, ...

Located about 620 light-years away, this rogue planet is about 5-10 times more massive than Jupiter and doesn’t orbit a star. It is eating up material from a disc around it and, using ESO’s Very Large ...

This year has been an amazing one for new observations by the various observatories that we have staring off into the cosmos. Notably, the past few days have delivered some absolutely breathtaking ...

In the brightest region within the nebula, some observers see the bird’s head, while others see a chicken’s butt. By Laura Baisas Published Dec 21, 2023 2:45 PM EST Get the Popular Science daily ...

The distinctive spiral of the Messier 66 (M66) galaxy radiates golden and purple gas in this striking new image, released by the European Southern Observatory (ESO). ESO's Multi-Unit Spectroscopic ...