The SKA-Low radio telescope in Western Australia is slowly coming online. It will probe the shape of the universe and study ...

In a recent update describing the progress of the construction of the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), the European Southern Observatory (ESO) shared a photo of the dome that will protect the ...

This preferred direction of spin might be due to one of two reasons: either our entire universe exists in a black hole, or ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has directly imaged four planets orbiting the host star HR 8799 about 130 light-years ...

New images from the Very Large Telescope (VLT) at the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Paranal Observatory suggest that the galaxy, known as NGC 3640, may soon merge with a smaller galactic ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has found perhaps its most profound discovery to date. The uncovered preferred direction for ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in ...

With Gravity, they provided a crucial instrument with which the four 8-meter telescopes of ESO's Very Large Telescope, VLT, can be connected to form a large, virtual telescope. This technology enabled ...

The telescope is peering at stars and galaxies that formed over 13 billion years ago, just a few hundred million years after the Big Bang. "We're going to see the very first stars and galaxies that ...

By combining all four telescope units of the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO's VLT), they found powerful winds carrying chemical elements like iron and titanium ...

Using the ESPRESSO instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), scientists have been able to prove into its atmosphere, revealing its 3D structure. This is the first time that this has been ...

To make our measurements, we used one of the most precise spectrographs on Earth, mounted on the largest telescope available to us: ESPRESSO at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) Very Large ...