The primary mirror array will be 128 feet (39 meters) across, allowing it to gather more light and greater detail than any ...

If there is life on Proxima Centauri b, it could take the Extremely Large Telescope as little as 10 hours to detect its ...

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 ...

Early simulations show that it would take only 10 hours for the forthcoming ELT to find signs of life near Proxima Centauri.

The Extremely Large Telescope will revolutionize our view of the cosmos when it sees first light in Chile in 2028. In fact, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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