Steve Bellavia and Justine Haupt of the Custer Observatory worked on the new telescope at the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in ...

Astronomers have finally caught a dying star in space going out with a bang — and then another bang. The new photographic ...

When the news started to spread on July 1, 2025, about a new object that was spotted from outside our solar system, only the ...

The European Southern Observatory has captured the clearest images yet of the interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS as it moves ...

ESO hosts four different telescopes in Chile: the Very Large Telescope (VLT), the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT, which is currently being ...

A new photo shows the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope beneath a star-studded sky at sunset, illuminated by a phenomenon known as the zodiacal light.

This image, taken with ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), shows the supernova remnant SNR 0509-67.5. These are the expanding ...

The Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), currently under construction on the 3,000-meter-high Cerro Amazonas in northern Chile, is a literally gigantic telescope with a primary mirror array with an ...

Scientists have obtained photographic evidence of a double-detonation Type Ia supernova for the first time. This rare cosmic ...

The main data used in studying the planet came from NASA's orbiting Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or TESS, and the European Southern Observatory's Chile-based Very Large Telescope, or VLT.

In addition to providing a trove of information about the early universe, the James Webb Space Telescope since its 2021 launch has obtained valuable data on various already-known planets beyond our ...

The Giant Magellan Telescope, one of the largest telescopes ever built, is entering the final design phase and is expected to be completed by the 2030s.