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

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, ...

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

Though still only in the prototype stage, this flat lens could one day be used on space telescopes, and perhaps even on ...

A light-year is the distance light travels in a year, 5.9 trillion miles. The researchers used data from the Hawaii island-based Gemini Telescope and Chile-based Very Large Telescope to confirm the ...

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 ...

This eye-catching Picture of the Week was captured from ESO’s Paranal Observatory. Home to ESO’s Very Large Telescope, the observatory sits proudly atop the 2635-metre-high Cerro Paranal in Northern ...

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 ...

The telescope sits about 12 miles away from the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT), which sits atop the Cerro Paranal mountaintop. The site was chosen for its ...