Stunning photos show bright comet lighting up the dark skies above ESO'sParanal Observatory, future home of the world's ...

Astronomers have discovered a truly ancient monster: a radio jet 200,000 light-years wide, originating from when the universe ...

Workers in Chile are making progress on the Extremely Large Telescope, planned as one of the most capable astronomical ...

A stronomers using the Very Large Telescope at the European Southern Observatory in Chile have imaged a filament of the ...

A project expected to bring major changes to humanity's understanding of the universe, the Extremely Large Telescope with a main mirror nearly 40 meters across, is being assembled in Chile's Atacama ...

Paranal’s facilities, however, should soon be outclassed by ESO’s under-construction $1.5-billion Extremely Large Telescope, or ELT, which boasts a light-gathering primary mirror nearly 40 ...

Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids.

The Extremely Large Telescope, under construction in Chile, aims to explore exoplanets for potential life and examine the ...

Recent science updates include Boom Supersonic's XB-1 breaking the sound barrier, progress on the Extremely Large Telescope ...

Chilean astronomers have observed a cataclysmic variable known as V1425 Aql. As a result, they have found that this system ...

Dozens of boxes holding mirrors are placed along a remote desert hill in northern Chile as workers make progress in the ...

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