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

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

The ELT is on its way to becoming the largest optical telescope in the world, and as it rises beneath some of the clearest ...

In Chile's Atacama Desert, a new wonder is slowly emerging — the European Southern Observatory's Extremely Large Telescope ...

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

The massive dome measures 305 feet (93 meters) in diameter, or about the size of a football field and stands 263 feet (80 meters) tall. Construction of the world's largest telescope has reached ...

Future projects, such as the European Extremely Large Telescope and Habitable Worlds Telescope, can be used to better sniff out the truth behind K2-18b.

and the Very Large Telescope (VLT), to further explore the nature of the gas and confirm the presence of a supermassive black hole in M83. These observations will help ascertain whether the newly ...

NASA announced on Thursday that it has discovered a massive and odd roaming black hole that once swallowed a star. This ...

The European Southern Observatory (ESO) recently shared new progress photos of the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), the world's largest visible- and infrared-light telescope. The ELT is currently ...