How A Green Energy Project Could Stop Us Seeing The Next 'Armageddon' Asteroid. In February this year the world was left on ...

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

A planet circling at a sharp 90-degree angle to the orbits of its two host stars has now been confirmed. This discovery ...

Thomas Baycroft at the University of Birmingham, UK, and his collaborators conducted long-term observations of the two dwarf stars using the Very Large Telescope at the Paranal Observatory in Chile.

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 ...

Captured by the VST, NGC 3640 reveals a turbulent history of cosmic cannibalism, but its current companion, NGC 3641, remains ...

Scientists collected observations with the Ultraviolet and Visual Echelle Spectrograph (UVES) instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope at Paranal Observatory, Chile. This pair of brown dwarfs ...

On a volcanic island under some of the darkest skies on Earth, I rediscovered the night sky and came home with a new view of ...

The European Southern Observatory (ESO ... The photo was taken by Eduardo Garcés from the Cerro Paranal mountain, home to ESO's Very Large Telescope, which is about 14 miles (23 kilometers ...

High atop Chile’s Atacama Desert, ESO’s Paranal Observatory reveals a starry spectacle, where the Milky Way dances like a dragon and lasers light up the sky to sharpen cosmic views. Credit: F. Millour ...

Thanks to the Very Large Telescope (VLT), located at Cerro Paranal in Chile, about 3,700 background stars ... More recently, the Herschel Space Observatory provided crucial data for understanding its ...