“We [will be able to] move quickly and map out very large areas of the sky,” adds Josh Schlieder, the telescope’s wide-field ...

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

Observatories in Chile’s Atacama Desert, including the world’s largest optical telescope, could be blinded by light pollution ...

It is known that the M1 alone will consist of 798 glass-ceramic hexagonal segments, each of which is about 5 centimeters ...

where the ESO is already building the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), to be the world’s largest optical instrument. Paranal’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) and interferometer (VLTI) themselves ...

A new type of observation reveals what makes the cores of active galaxies glow. Active galactic nuclei (AGN) are supermassive black holes at the centre of certain galaxies. When these black holes ...

The ELT, under construction near Mount Armazones, is set to be the world’s largest visible-light telescope. It will feature a 39.3-meter-wide mirror and is expected to expand our understanding ...

"This is a very large investment that affects all of humanity," Oracle founder Larry Ellison told Fox News chief political anchor Bret Baier on "Special Report" on Tuesday. President Trump ...

The upcoming ESO Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), currently under construction in Chile, will play a crucial role in these studies. Equipped with the ANDES instrument, the ELT will allow scientists to ...

World’s largest telescope dome completed in Chile ELT dome will house massive telescope for groundbreaking research Telescope aims to revolutionize space exploration by 2028 ...

The discovery was made using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO's VLT) in Chile and provides unique insights into the weather patterns of a distant world. Tornados ...

By tracking the speed of molecules in the atmosphere with the CRIRES+ instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope, researchers found that one side of the planet’s atmosphere is moving towards us ...