A gorgeous new set of images shows the striking ... a telescope called the VLT Survey Telescope (VST), located at the European Southern Observatory (ESO)’s Paranal Observatory in Chile.

The moon, the Milky Way, Saturn, Venus, Jupiter Mars, Neptune, Uranus and comet C/2024 G3 are all visible at once in breathtaking new photos from the European Southern Observatory.

The site was chosen for its altitude, placing the telescope above as much atmospheric disturbance as possible. The air has a ...

Astronomers have confirmed the existence of four planets orbiting a star less than 6 light-years away with help from some of ...

This eye-catching Picture of the Week was captured from ESO’s Paranal Observatory. Home to ESO’s Very Large Telescope, the observatory sits proudly atop the 2635-metre-high Cerro Paranal in Northern ...

A European space telescope launched to explore the dark universe has released a trove of new data on distant galaxies.

JOHN BARTLETT, BYLINE: When night falls over the Paranal Observatory, which operates one of the world's most powerful telescopes, the skies above are dusted with brilliant constellations and nebulae.

An in-depth technical analysis by the European Southern Observatory (ESO) has evaluated the impact of the INNA megaproject on ...

The moon, the Milky Way, Saturn, Venus, Jupiter Mars, Neptune, Uranus and comet C/2024 G3 seen above the European Southern Observatory's Paranal Observatory ... ESO released two images of an ...