The Extremely Large Telescope under construction in Chile's Atacama Desert could detect signs of alien life on other planets ...

With METIS and MICADO, two instruments for what will be the largest optical telescope in the world, the Extremely Large ...

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

Another stunning image from the James Webb Space Telescope shows a plume of warm dust and gas formed by jets from a baby star.

Scientists have taken the clearest-ever images of the universe when it was just 380,000 years old—essentially a baby picture ...

Physicists may need to come up with a new theory for how the universe works, after a dark energy experiment has produced ...

Less than one per cent of Australia's SKA-Low telescope is complete – but its first image reveals a sky dotted with ...

When Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft malfunctioned, Williams and Wilmore became long-term residents on the space station—and ...

Germany’s members of the Euclid Consortium have played a significant role in producing the mission’s first large set of survey data which the European Space Agency has just released. The data includes ...

The Canadian-built Atacama Cosmology Telescope in the high Chilean desert mountains, which has just given up its final batch ...

With the first large dataset from the Euclid space telescope, researchers discover 26 million galaxies and the detailed ...

Covering a vast sky area in three mosaics, the data release also includes numerous galaxy clusters, active galactic nuclei and transient phenomena ...