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

The stunning comet C/2024 G3 lights up the sunset sky over Chile's Very Large Telescope in this spectacular photo.

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

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

"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." ...

WASHINGTON, March 13 (Reuters) - Astronomers have identified a quartet of small rocky planets orbiting Barnard's star - one of our closest stellar neighbors - though they concluded that all of ...