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

The Very Large Telescope is situated atop Cerro Paranal, an 8,645-foot-high (2,635 m) mountain in Chile's Atacama Desert, about 75 miles (120 km) south of the port city of Antofagasta.

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

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

Astronomers uncover the first direct evidence for how some white dwarf stars explode, confirming the long-debated ...

ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) at Paranal Observatory in northern Chile began operation on May 25, 1998. Here, we present photos of the four Unit Telescopes and some of the amazing images they ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered its first exoplanet, astronomers said Wednesday, capturing rare direct images ...

This image, taken with the Multi-Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), shows the nearby galaxy NGC 4254. NGC 4254 is a grand-design spiral galaxy located ...

Very Large Telescope joins Breakthrough search for Alpha Centauri’s planets. by Alan Boyle on January 9, 2017 at 10:59 am January 9, 2017 at 3:44 pm. Share Tweet Share Reddit Email.

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 ...

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 ...