ESO hosts four different telescopes in Chile: the Very Large Telescope (VLT), the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT, which is currently being ...

The European Southern Observatory has captured the clearest images yet of the interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS as it moves ...

Steve Bellavia and Justine Haupt of the Custer Observatory worked on the new telescope at the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in ...

Astronomers first identified these minerals using the now-three-year-old James Webb Space Telescope. To see where exactly the ...

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

When the news started to spread on July 1, 2025, about a new object that was spotted from outside our solar system, only the ...

The Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), currently under construction on the 3,000-meter-high Cerro Amazonas in northern Chile, is a literally gigantic telescope with a primary mirror array with an ...

The Giant Magellan Telescope, one of the largest telescopes ever built, is entering the final design phase and is expected to be completed by the 2030s.

Later this year, astronomers will start filming an unprecedented 10-year movie of the southern sky, using a brand-new and super-powerful telescope facility in Chile.

They call it, simply, the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), because it will be absolutely massive – the largest of its kind ever made. Its mission of "world’s biggest eye on the sky" will be ...