European Southern Observatory News

A new type of galaxy nicknamed "green bean galaxies" has been identified and they are some of the rarest objects in the known universe. The nickname comes from the galaxies' app...

Rocky Planets Could Be More Common Than Previously Thought

Astronomers have now observed that the dust disc orbiting a brown dwarf contains millimeter-sized solid particles - the sa...

Astronomers Discover Dwarf Planet Makemake Has No Atmosphere

Astronomers have discovered that a dwarf planet in our solar system named Makemake has no atmosphere. The object, which o...

Close Rogue Planet Identified by ESO Astronomers

Astronomers have identified what is "very probably" a relatively close-by planet hurtling through space - not orbiting a star. The...

New Estimate: Billions of Earth-like Planets in our Galaxy

The European Southern Observatory (ESO) has announced a new estimate for the number of planets similar to Earth in the Milky Way Galaxy: tens of billions. “Our new observations...

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