This galaxy's central black hole appears to be a "messy eater" as its interstellar scraps are strewn into space.

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 ...

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

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

A newly found super-Earth could help provide answers as to why there are hardly any planets twice the diameter of Earth.

The four lasers of ESO’s Very Large Telescope piercing the heart of the Milky Way. (F. Millour/ESO via SWNS) By Dean Murray A ...

The Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), currently under construction in northern Chile, will give us a better view of the Milky ...

The project in the Atacama Desert could increase light pollution by up to 50%, making it much harder to observe the cosmos near the Paranal Observatory.

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, it could detect hints of alien life around our closest neighboring star ...

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 ...

The four beams of the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) are used to excite sodium atoms in the atmosphere to make for better cosmic observations. The VLT ...