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

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

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

The Extremely Large Telescope, under construction in Chile, aims to explore exoplanets for potential life and examine the ...

Recent science updates include Boom Supersonic's XB-1 breaking the sound barrier, progress on the Extremely Large Telescope ...

The European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) — the world's largest visible- and infrared-light telescope — is currently under development on the Cerro Armazones ...

A: The Extremely Large Telescope is planned to be one of the most capable astronomical observatories ever assembled. The telescope, currently about 60% complete, is intended to search for evidence ...

Astronomers are sounding alarm bells as the world's most precious sky-observing location faces a risk ... Southern Observatory's (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT). VLT, which cost some $350 million ...

The frame of the dome that will house the world's largest telescope has been completed, marking another key milestone in the observatory's construction. The European Southern Observatory's (ESO) ...

The U.S. energy company AES Energy wants to build a large renewable ... Armazones as a location of its next generation sky-observing super-machine — the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT).