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

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

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

Nadeen Sabha,University Innsbruck is the first astrophysicist in Austria to lead a research project at the new James Webb ...

The ESO's Very Large Telescope provided crucial data needed to calculate the asteroid's orbit. The potential risk of Asteroid 2024 YR4 impacting Earth in 2032 dropped to nearly zero following new ...

A light-year is the distance light travels in a year, 5.9 trillion miles. The researchers used data from the Hawaii ...

An in-depth technical analysis by the European Southern Observatory (ESO) has evaluated the impact of the INNA megaproject on the facilities at the Paranal Observatory, Chile — and the results are ...

Using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (yes, that’s really what it’s called), they identified complex weather patterns and a surprising chemical composition.

"We are currently using observations from the Hubble Space Telescope and the Very Large Telescope to study the dayside cloud structure in more detail to learn as much as possible." ...

How did the universe begin? A compact NASA space telescope that uses less power than a refrigerator is poised to chip away at that very large question. Called SPHEREx, and set for launch on a ...