An in-depth technical analysis by the European Southern Observatory (ESO) has evaluated the impact of the INNA megaproject on the facilities at the Paranal Observatory, Chile—and the results are ...

The Paranal Observatory will also host the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), currently under construction on the nearby Cerro Armazones. The dark skies above ESO’s Paranal Observatory, home to ...

Earlier this year, ESO alerted the astronomy community that its facilities at Paranal - with some of the world's darkest skies - were threatened by the plans to build a 7,400-acre (3,000 hectares ...

BARTLETT: The Very Large Telescope, or VLT, at Paranal began operations in 1998 and has taken readings which have won three Nobel prizes. It is operated by the European Southern Observatory, led ...

The Paranal Observatory, in the Atacama Desert in Chile, which is part of the European Southern Observatory (ESO), will receive a telescope made in Portugal in 2025, to observe the Sun.

For Halloween, the European Southern Observatory (ESO) reveals a spooktacular image of a dark nebula that creates the illusion of a wolf-like silhouette against a colourful cosmic backdrop.

A new study by the European Southern Observatory (ESO) contradicts corporate claims that a proposed hydrogen fuel facility would not harm observatories in Chile.. Earlier this year, ESO alerted ...

With its clear, dark skies, northern Chile is home to two fifths of the world's astronomical infrastructure, but could that be under threat with increasing urbanisation and mining development?