This one-of-a-kind huge telescope will capture the sharpest and best images of space any telescope has ever done.

Scientists have referred to the ancient mammoth structures as "Red Monsters" because their high dust content makes them ...

A peek into the future of exoplanet science suggests the forthcoming European Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) is going to give us our best chance in the next two decades of detecting biosignatures ...

Dr Hainaut works for the European Southern Observatory (ESO) organisation which operates world-class facilities in Chile's Atacama Desert, including the VLT (Very Large Telescope) and the ...

Scientists use a telescope in Chile to complete a survey of the coldest parts of the Milky Way's galactic plane. The European Extremely Large Telescope will produce images 15 times sharper than ...

The 42-metre European Extremely Large Telescope will be built in Chile’s north—3,060 meters above sea level on a mountain known as Armazonas. Chile has won its bid for the world’s largest ...

Insights from a new study suggest that the European Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) could offer the best prospects for detecting biosignatures on nearby rocky exoplanets within the next two ...

Throughout the day, thousands of visitors had the chance to help build a full-size mock-up mirror of the largest planned telescope in the world — the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT) — and ...

Halloween is here, and there is no better way to celebrate than with a blood-curdling image of the Dark Wolf Nebula looking ...

The biggest new telescopes are being built in the mountains of Chile. The Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) will house a mirror the size of four tennis courts, under a huge dome in the Atacama desert.

JWST, a groundbreaking space observatory, enhances our understanding of the cosmos by studying distant galaxies, star ...