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

You may have heard of the Very Large Telescope, but did you know it can function as a massive 200-meter-wide virtual telescope? Or that it outperforms many newer telescopes with its sheer scientific ...

ESO estimates the complex will leak as much light pollution as a city with a population of about 20,000. Parts of the ...

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

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

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

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

Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) soared through the starry skies above the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Paranal Observatory in Chile, home to the Very Large Telescope and future site of the ...

Four bright lasers, the most powerful ever put on a telescope, fire into the night sky to create an artificial guide star for the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope at the ...