With the promise of revolutionizing our view of nearby star systems, the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) is poised to do ...

Over the past few years or so the most talked about kind of telescope was the one that is meant to operate in space. An ...

The Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), currently under construction in northern Chile, will give us a better view of the Milky ...

A green energy plant expected to be built in Chile could increase night-time sky brightness at one of the world's most ...

The project in the Atacama Desert could increase light pollution by up to 50%, making it much harder to observe the cosmos ...

A new study has revealed the structure of extreme winds on WASP-121b, a gas giant located 1,300 light-years away. This ...

An in-depth technical analysis by the European Southern Observatory (ESO) has evaluated the impact of the INNA megaproject on ...

The E-ELT will dwarf all other optical/near infrared telescopes. Its multi-faceted mirror, 138 feet across, will have almost a thousand hexagonal segments each almost five feet wide. Like Magellan ...

They will include ESO's Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), which is currently under construction in Chile's Atacama Desert, and its ANDES instrument. "The ELT will be a game-changer for studying ...

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 ...