Scientists are using the giant Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT) to prospect in Sagittarius B2(N), a giant molecular cloud near the center of our Galaxy, some 25,000 light-years from...

European astronomers have discovered the smallest planet yet found orbiting another star. The discovery suggests that the Milky Way is full of small-mass planets and that...

This colour-composite image was obtained by the ESO telescope headquarters at La Silla, Chile. This photogenic group of nebulae can be found in Chamaeleon, a constellation visible...

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Here’s the first satellite images from the ISS of the earthquake off the coast of Chile taken by Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi, who is currently...