The European Space Agency’s “dark universe detective” discovered millions of new galaxies and offers potential clues about ...

The stunning comet C/2024 G3 lights up the sunset sky over Chile's Very Large Telescope in this spectacular photo.

An in-depth technical analysis by the European Southern Observatory (ESO) has evaluated the impact of the INNA megaproject on the facilities at the Paranal Observatory, Chile — and the results are ...

A light-year is the distance light travels in a year, 5.9 trillion miles. The researchers used data from the Hawaii ...

The ESO's Very Large Telescope provided crucial data needed to calculate the asteroid's orbit. The potential risk of Asteroid 2024 YR4 impacting Earth in 2032 dropped to nearly zero following new ...

The area is home to the Paranal Obser­vatory, which houses the European South­ern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope, used by astronomers to search the Milky Way with “unparalleled clarity ...

WASHINGTON, March 13 (Reuters) - Astronomers have identified a quartet of small rocky planets orbiting Barnard's star - one of our closest stellar neighbors - though they concluded that all of ...

which used the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope in Chile. “We observed at different times of night on different days. They’re in Chile; we’re in Hawai‘i. Our teams ...

For a brief moment, asteroid 2024 YR4 had scientists on edge, with its impact probability climbing as high as 2.8%—enough to capture global attention. But thanks to rapid observations and advanced ...

NASA launched a new space telescope into orbit to explore the origins of the universe. The mission will use sophisticated ...

Using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (yes, that’s really what it’s called), they identified complex weather patterns and a surprising chemical composition.