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 ...

Beneath Chile’s brilliant skies, the ELT grows—an engineering giant ready to capture the secrets of the universe with the ...

The European Southern Observatory (ESO ... by Eduardo Garcés from the Cerro Paranal mountain, home to ESO's Very Large Telescope, which is about 14 miles (23 kilometers) from the ELT, capturing ...

On a volcanic island under some of the darkest skies on Earth, I rediscovered the night sky and came home with a new view of ...

Captured by the VST, NGC 3640 reveals a turbulent history of cosmic cannibalism, but its current companion, NGC 3641, remains ...

The discovery, made with the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT), is the first time scientists have documented strong evidence of a “polar planet” orbiting a ...

Scientists used the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT) to make this exciting discovery. Several planets orbiting two stars at once have been discovered in the past years ...

The discovery of this "polar planet," made using the Very Large Telescope at the European Southern Observatory in Chile, was published in Science Advances on April 16. Another astonishing rarity ...

But they are more massive than the biggest planets and are modestly luminous. Using the European Southern Observatory’s Chile ...