There’s a weird asteroid shaped like a bone whipping around our sun
Astronomers have got their closest look yet at an unusually shaped asteroid orbiting the sun in the asteroid belt between Jupiter and Mars.
This tiny exoplanet 35 light-years away is half the mass of Venus
Of the roughly 4,200 exoplanets discovered thus far, most are larger than Earth. But the recently identified planet L 98-59b is just half the mass of Venus.
Very Large Telescope captures a cosmic fireworks display
A series of five stunning images of nearby galaxies could help to unravel the mystery of how stars form.
The Very Large Telescope captures a striking cosmic butterfly nebula
The temperature in the nebula is over 10,000 degrees Celsius