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 ...

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 ...

In these gorgeous photos from the Paranal Observatory, it's not hard to see why. Photographer Yuri Beletsky caught comet G3 (ATLAS) looking " almost like a watercolor painting," ESO wrote in a ...

Space can be a wondrous place, and we've got the pictures to prove it ... Paranal Observatory in Chile, home to the Very Large Telescope and future site of the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT ...

NASA prepares to launch SPHEREx, a groundbreaking telescope surpassing James Webb's capabilities ... how matter was spread across the cosmos after the Big Bang. This large-scale map could offer ...

Laser beams streak from the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope ... turbulence. The telescope is one of only a few able to directly capture images of giant exoplanets.

After 2024 YR4 was detected late last year, the European Space Observatory (ESO)'s Very Large Telescope in Chile captured these images of the ... Sentry’s latest version is smart enough to ...

The best telescopes allow you to observe this month's full planetary parade more closely and give you a front-row seat to the total lunar eclipse in March. The best telescopes unlock the wonders ...

Chile, the world's largest copper producer and second-largest lithium producer, has seen mining and renewable energy projects expand in its mineral-rich north in recent years. Paranal telescope ...

CERRO PARANAL, Chile - Chile's pristine, dark desert skies, world-renowned for astronomy, are at risk of being outshined by urban and industrial development according to astronomers. Angel Otarola ...

Matter in intergalactic space is distributed in a vast network of interconnected filamentary structures, collectively referred to as the cosmic web. With hundreds of hours of observations, an ...

Observations from telescopes like the James Webb Space Telescope have revealed quasars — extremely bright objects powered by supermassive black holes — at these early epochs, and they boast ...