Early simulations show that it would take only 10 hours for the forthcoming ELT to find signs of life near Proxima Centauri.

The Extremely Large Telescope will revolutionize our view of the cosmos when it sees first light in Chile in 2028. In fact, ...

The primary mirror array will be 128 feet (39 meters) across, allowing it to gather more light and greater detail than any ...

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 ...

When completed, the appropriately named Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) will be capable of collecting 100 million times more light than the human eye, and it might even be capable of figuring out ...

The European ELT is an adaptive telescope with built-in deformable mirrors. It aims to approach diffraction-limited performance in the near-infrared wavelength region and resolve 8 milliarcseconds ...

The effects of a proposed green-energy facility in Chile could be devastating for some of the most powerful instruments ...

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

With METIS and MICADO, two instruments for what will be the largest optical telescope in the world, the Extremely Large ...

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