Three of the four Auxiliary Telescopes of the Very Large Telescope Interferometer in Chile that were used in this study are visible in this photo. Sandwiched between the orange glow of the sunset and ...

SPHERE’s detailed images of dusty rings around young stars offer a rare glimpse into the hidden machinery of planet formation ...

How a Finnish physicist named Karl Lemström once became obsessed with recreating the aurora borealis from scratch – and may ...

Observations with the instrument SPHERE at ESO's Very Large Telescope have produced an unprecedented gallery of "debris disks" in exoplanetary systems.

New high-contrast images from SPHERE show a stunning variety of debris disks shaped by collisions of tiny planet-building ...

Using the SPHERE instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope, astronomers have created an extraordinary set of images showing debris disks in a wide ...

Observations with the instrument SPHERE at ESO's Very Large Telescope have produced an unprecedented gallery of "debris disks ...

Traces of comets and asteroids in distant solar systems: In young planetary systems, mutual collisions between asteroids or ...

In young planetary systems, mutual collisions between asteroids or comets generate large amounts of dust, forming a "debris ...

Drawing on the University of Arizona’s renowned strength in interferometry, astronomers from Steward Observatory are leading ...

A burst of plasma and energy from the sun could make the northern lights visible in more than a dozen states this week.

The northern lights could be visible in more than a dozen states thanks to a burst of plasma and energy from the sun.