The space-based observatory has revolutionized the way we see space, and it can now add another remarkable accomplishment to ...

Very massive stars (VMSs) have had a massive impact on the formation of our universe. However, there aren't very many of them ...

The plains house the aptly named Very Large Array (VLA)—a radio telescope made of 27 different antennas, each of which looks like a home satellite dish on steroids. When the antennas are pointed ...

The European Southern Observatory has captured the clearest images yet of the interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS as it moves inward through the solar system.

Astronomers have created the most detailed image of a galaxy of its kind ever seen. The “incredibly detailed” picture shows parts of the Sculptor Galaxy that have never been seen before. Scientists ...

ESO's Extremely Large Telescope at Cerro Armazones in Chile's Atacama Desert is seen from directly above while its construction continues.

ESO hosts four different telescopes in Chile: the Very Large Telescope , the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array , the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT, which is currently being built), and ...

New observations show a star that blew up in two separate bursts, confirming a long-suspected cosmic phenomenon called a ...

An image of the Sculptor Galaxy created using images from the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope. Credit: ESO / E. Congiu et al. It’s not every day we get to see a visual of ...

European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope took photos a rare supernova roughly 300 years after it happened ...

New images from the Very Large Telescope (VLT) at the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Paranal Observatory suggest that the galaxy, known as NGC 3640, may soon merge with a smaller galactic ...