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

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

Picture it: viewing a giant telescope emerging under the same sky. In Chile's Atacama Desert, a new wonder is slowly emerging — the European Southern Observatory's Extremely Large Telescope (ELT ...

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

Modern lasers meet ancient wisdom as four beams from ESO’s telescope reflect the Andean reverence for cosmic balance.

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

Black holes are the hungry monsters of the cosmos: enormously dense objects that can suck in any material which strays too ...

Discover why we've given the ZWO Seestar S30 smart telescope nearly top marks in our latest smart telescope review.

Have you ever had an X-ray taken of your bones? Well, so has the Milky Way. NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory regularly images ...

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

Quasars represent some of the most luminous and energetic phenomena in the universe. These distant powerhouses are driven by ...

Among the events it can identify are tidal disruption events, where a star gets spaghettified by the enormous gravity of a ...