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

A: The Extremely Large ... observatories ever assembled. The telescope, currently about 60% complete, is intended to search for evidence of potential life on exoplanets and peer back in time ...

An international team has confirmed the discovery of a super-Earth orbiting in the habitable zone of a nearby sun-like star.

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

Using 20 years of data from the Hubble Space Telescope astronomers have discovered that turbulent stars could be corrupting ...

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

Astronomers aimed the Very Large Telescope in Chile at a nearby exoplanet and discovered jet stream winds blowing nearly 80 times faster than any seen here on Earth, and the fastest of their kind ever ...

This artist’s visualisation of WASP-127b, a giant gas planet located about 520 light-years from Earth, shows its newly discovered supersonic jet winds that move around the planet’s equator.

Earth's unusual orbit through hot and cold conditions tests the limits of tolerability for any known lifeforms.

a giant exoplanet, reaching speeds of up to 33,000 km/h. This marks the fastest jetstream ever measured on a planet. The discovery, made using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope ...

Astronomers have discovered extremely powerful winds pummeling the equator of WASP-127b, a giant exoplanet ... European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO's VLT) in Chile and ...