ESO's Extremely Large Telescope at Cerro Armazones in Chile's Atacama Desert is seen from directly above while its ...

The European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope has detected "a scar imprinted on the surface" of white dwarf star WD 0816-310. Credit: ESO ...

In Chile's Atacama Desert, the European Southern Observatory is constructing the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), poised to be the world's largest optical telescope. ESO's live webcam offers a ...

How A Green Energy Project Could Stop Us Seeing The Next 'Armageddon' Asteroid. In February this year the world was left on ...

A 2021 satellite image shows destructive lava flows burning through a residential area in the Canary Islands as molten rock ...

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In a memorable image from the 1977 film “Star Wars,” the young hero Luke Skywalker gazes at two suns setting above the ...

This particular telescope is under construction in the Atacama Desert in northern Chile, one of the darkest places on Earth ...

Modern lasers meet ancient wisdom as four beams from ESO’s telescope reflect the Andean reverence for cosmic balance.

The James Webb Space Telescope has observed glowing auroras on Jupiter like never before.

The researchers analyzed 917 native forest plant species in Central and Western Europe and found that more than 80% prefer high-light conditions—environments traditionally created by large ...