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

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 European Space Agency’s “dark universe detective” discovered millions of new galaxies and offers potential clues about ...

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

Europe's ESO astrophysics agency said Monday that a giant green energy project billed for Chile's Atacama desert—home to the ...

This image shows comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) from the European Southern Observatory near its Very Large Telescope (which is visible on the mountaintop of Cerro Paranal at left) as seen by ESO ...

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

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 observations of 2024 YR4 conducted with the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO's VLT) and facilities around the world have all but ruled out an impact of the asteroid ...

To make our measurements, we used one of the most precise spectrographs on Earth, mounted on the largest telescope available to us: ESPRESSO at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) Very Large ...

The area is home to the Paranal Obser­vatory, which houses the European South­ern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope, used by astronomers to search the Milky Way with “unparalleled clarity ...