Scientists are reflecting on lessons learned with the completion of removal this summer of the Caltech telescope from the ...

Jupiter" exoplanet called 2M1207b, precisely 20 years ago this week. This was the first direct visual confirmation of a world ...

The Very Large Telescope is situated atop Cerro Paranal, an 8,645-foot-high (2,635 m) mountain in Chile's Atacama Desert, about 75 miles (120 km) south of the port city of Antofagasta. The VLT has ...

Astronomers have now seen and captured pictures of another star bubbling gas on its surface. The star, R Doradus, is a red giant, with a diameter about 350 times larger than the sun's. This puffy star ...

Chile, with its vast deserts and clear skies, offers some of the best stargazing spots in the world. The unique geographical ...

A star’s surface temperature can be used to determine the star’s luminosity and chemical composition. At best, a star’s exact ...

Thus far, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) has used strategies based on classical science—listening for ...

A new catalog providing information on millions of distant galaxies, which determines their distances with unprecedented ...

The Atacama Desert in Chile is renowned for having one of the clearest night skies on our planet. Situated at a high altitude ...

In the Atacama Desert in Chile, on top of a mountain at 3,000m, the Extremely Large Telescope is being constructed. Inside ...

Discover the wonders of telescopes, from their design to their limits, and the advanced technology behind modern astronomical ...