The galaxies, each as vast as the Milky Way, are baffling because most scientific models for galaxy evolution suggest ...

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

An curved arrow pointing right. The European Southern Observatory is building an enormous new telescope high in the Atacama Desert in Chile. Even though the location is on the other side of the ...

Roughly 400,000 years after the Big Bang, the universe cooled just enough to allow photons to escape from the primordial ...

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 ...

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 ...

For Halloween, the European Southern Observatory (ESO) reveals this spooktacular image of a dark nebula that creates the ...

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 ...

While some dark nebulas are visible to the naked eye, such as the Coalsack Nebula, that isn't true of the Dark Wolf Nebula.