Over the past few years or so the most talked about kind of telescope was the one that is meant to operate in space. An ...

The world's largest telescope is almost as big as your house—and it’s unlocking the universe’s biggest mysteries.

An curved arrow pointing right. In 2016, the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope achieved “first light” on its new optics system, shooting four lasers into the sky for the ...

Antonia M. Varela, Héctor Vázquez Ramió, Jean Vernin, Casiana Muñoz-Tuñón, Marc Sarazin, Hervé Trinquet, José Miguel Delgado, Jesús Jiménez Fuensalida, Marcos Reyes, Abdelmajid Benhida, Zouhair ...

But recent observations, including from the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT), reduced the asteroid's impact probability to around 0.001%, after rising to more than ...

The Chilean Andes will be the location for the world’s largest telescope: the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT), costing more than €1bn, which will capture the universe's earliest ...

The European Space Agency’s Euclid space telescope, built to capture a 3D map of the universe, just released its first big ...

An idea that calls for the creation of inflatable starshades for telescopes has been recognized by NASA as part of the ...

New images from the Very Large Telescope (VLT) at the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Paranal Observatory suggest that the galaxy, known as NGC 3640, may soon merge with a smaller galactic ...

The European Space Agency has released the first batch of large-scale images from the Euclid space telescope, which ...

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