At ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile’s Atacama Desert, visitors can experience some of the darkest and clearest night skies ...

A dazzling snapshot from ESO’s Paranal Observatory captures a rare sky parade — the Moon, a comet, and nearly every visible planet strung across the heavens. This celestial lineup is an optical ...

In a breathtaking new photograph shared by the European Southern Observatory (ESO), the sun rises behind the Extremely Large ...

Like the Star Wars planet, a distant world follows a path around two stars, both of them small, cool bodies called brown ...

The massive dome measures 305 feet (93 meters) in diameter, or about the size of a football field and stands 263 feet (80 ...

Astronomers have discovered a planet that orbits at a 90-degree angle around a rare pair of strange stars—a real-life 'twist' ...

Scientists used the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT) to make this exciting discovery. Several ...

Astronomers have discovered the weirdest planetary system ever seen, consisting of a planet rolling around rare binary ...

A hypothetical office overlooking the Paranal Observatory in Chile, with the European Southern Observatory’s VLT visible with its laser on the hill, and the four small SPECULOOS telescopes nearer the ...

Astronomers have discovered a rare planet orbiting at a 90-degree angle around two brown dwarfs—marking the first evidence of ...

Research using detailed simulations based on public plans for the green energy plant shows serious harm to southern ...