The discovery was made possible using the Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile, operated by the European Southern Observatory ...

An asteroid first spotted in December has a 1.2% chance of hitting Earth in 2032. Scientists are tracking the space rock to learn more about its size and trajectory.

This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope features Arp 72, a very selective galaxy group that only includes two ...

AN ALIEN planet with traces of water and “complex weather patterns like Earth” might be seen like a good contender for a ...

To put the wind speeds into perspective, the fastest winds ever observed in our solar system are on Neptune, at a speed of ...

Astronomers sound the alarm as a proposed renewable hydrogen project in Chile threatens to disrupt the pristine night skies ...

Light pollution from a planned renewable energy project in Chile could significantly impact the European Southern Observatory ...

By the 1990s, Paranal became the focal point of European astronomy with the creation of the Very Large Telescope. Mount Paranal’s dark skies make it the ideal home for VLT The VLT owes much of ...

the site of the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT). VLT, which cost some $350 million to build in the 1990s ($840 million in today's dollars), is one of the world's most ...

"Moreover, they demonstrate what will be more routinely achievable with the new generation of instruments coming on-line, particularly the Durham-led KMOS spectrograph that is about to be installed on ...

"We have had a very detailed analysis of the maiden flight and obviously discovered a few anomalies and things that need to be corrected." Europe is moving towards the second launch of its new ...