At the Paranal Observatory in Chile, the UT4 telescope doesn’t just observe the stars—it actively creates artificial stars to ...

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

The massive dome measures 305 feet (93 meters) in diameter, or about the size of a football field and stands 263 feet (80 ...

However, understanding whether this suspected-rocky planet has the capacity to support life or not will provide our scientific minds with clear evidence as to whether their invest ...

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

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

Using the Very Large Telescope, researc... The construction of the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) in Chile's Atacama Desert has reached a significant milestone with the completion of its dome's ...

which will actually house seven 8.4-meter telescopes, will likely exceed $1 billion. The staggeringly huge 39.3-meter European Extremely Large Telescope, or E-ELT, is projected to cost $1.35 billion.