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 ...

In Chile's Atacama Desert, the European Southern Observatory is constructing the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), poised to ...

The James Webb Space Telescope may be NASA’s crown jewel, but Europe’s ELT is quietly poised to reshape astronomy. Located in Chile’s Atacama Desert, the Extremely Large Telescope will dwarf JWST in ...

The best telescopes for kids that we recommend are not toys but usable instruments, based on how easy they are to use for younger astronomers who want to gaze at the heavens.

The data revealed that gas from HW2's accretion disk is collapsing inward at breakneck speed, feeding the star at an ...

An unlucky star came into contact with a roaming black hole and was ripped apart in a peculiar celestial occurrence.

This small, low-cost, smartphone-controlled smart telescope has a few surprises for photographers of all kinds ...

Astronomers didn’t even know sub-Neptunes existed until NASA’s Kepler mission uncovered them over the past decade. Although a ...

Using new observations with the ALMA telescope array in Chile, researchers have compiled the most precise map of three regions in the Milky Way's Central Molecular Zone to date, providing valuable ...