A proposed green hydrogen production facility in Chile's Atacama Desert could significantly increase nighttime sky brightness ...

Astronomers have witnessed for the first time a violent cosmic collision in which one galaxy pierces another with intense ...

Over the coming weeks, the final components of this powerful instrument are being carefully packed. Media representatives are invited for a behind-the-scenes look and a special event on June 10 ahead ...

At the Paranal Observatory in Chile, the UT4 telescope doesn’t just observe the stars—it actively creates artificial stars to combat atmospheric interference. By shooting powerful lasers into the sky, ...

The project’s main unit would be located 11 kilometres from Paranal Observatory, 5 km from the CTAO and 20 km from the ELT. The ESO’s latest analysis was conducted by Martin Aubé at the ...

Michael Orso/Getty Images, FILE The first planet was detected using a 27-foot diameter telescope at the European Space Observatory’s Paranal Observatory in Chile and a spectrograph that could ...

This eye-catching Picture of the Week was captured from ESO's Paranal Observatory.Home to ESO's Very Large Telescope, the observatory sits proudly atop the 2635-meter-high Cerro Paranal in ...

The moon, the Milky Way, Saturn, Venus, Jupiter Mars, Neptune, Uranus and comet C/2024 G3 seen above the European Southern Observatory's Paranal Observatory in Chile's Atacama Desert. . | Credit ...

JOHN BARTLETT, BYLINE: When night falls over the Paranal Observatory, which operates one of the world's most powerful telescopes, the skies above are dusted with brilliant constellations and nebulae.

CTAO will consist of two telescope arrays, one of which will be on the Spanish island La Palma and the other at ESO’s Paranal Observatory. But ESO officials are currently worried that the clear ...

The Very Large Telescope resides at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile’s Atacama Desert and is currently under threat (somewhat ironically) by plans to construct a green energy project in the ...