Stunning photos show bright comet lighting up the dark skies above ESO'sParanal Observatory, future home of the world's ...

A stronomers using the Very Large Telescope at the European Southern Observatory in Chile have imaged a filament of the ...

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

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A large asteroid could be heading toward Earth within the next decade, and there's a small chance it could strike the planet, according to NASA.

NASA prepares to launch SPHEREx, a groundbreaking telescope surpassing James Webb's capabilities in certain aspects. With a ...

In blue is a map showing the total mass concentration (mostly dark matter) based on data from the Hubble Space Telescope, the Very Large Telescope (VLT), and the Subaru Telescope. Optical data from ...

During this period, ESA will coordinate a series of increasingly powerful telescope observations, culminating in a study using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope in Chile to ...

Telescopes around the world have spotted a monster radio jet streaming from a quasar dating back to the first 1 billion years ...

Named after NASA’s first Chief of Astronomy, the Nancy Grace Roman Telescope is a big deal. Its 2.4-meter-wide primary mirror, which is comparable in size to the Hubble Space Telescope, provides a ...