The Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) will be the world’s largest optical/near-infrared telescope. It is under construction on top of a…
A team of astronomers has found two Super-Earths orbiting a red dwarf about 114 light-years away. The star, named LP…
Here’s a dramatic and spectacular new view of the Cone Nebula, as seen by the Very Large Telescope (VLT). This…
This new image taken of the skies above Chile’s Atacama Desert near the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) La Silla Observatory,…
The Event Horizon Telescope Consortium has some big news about the center of our galaxy, and will be announcing at…
Astronomers have confirmed the presence of a THIRD exoplanet in the neighboring Proxima Centauri system!
A huge team of astronomers have combined forces to use the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) to…
Interferometers are some of the most highly advanced sensor instruments that humans have made. They are used in everything from…
I'd never seen galaxy images like this before. Nobody had! These images highlight star forming regions in nearby(ish) galaxies. There…
Work has begun on the sixth and seventh mirror segments for the Giant Magellan Telescope, which will begin studying the…