Chile's Atacama Desert is home to some of the best Earth-based observatories, though an energy company is throwing a wrench ...

Very Large Telescope observations of the galaxy revealed that there was likely a “sudden awakening of the massive black hole ...

On January 7, 2025, the European Commission established the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO) as a European ...

A new image from the Very Large Telescope captures a cosmic cloud referred to as the Running Chicken Nebula, given its bright ...

The discovery, which relied on data from the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope, marks the first time that a binary star system has been observed in the vicinity of a ...

Collaborative work by amateur and professional astronomers has helped to resolve a long-standing misunderstanding about the composition of Jupiter's clouds. Instead of being formed of ammonia ice -- ...

New research from a team of citizen scientists challenges the old idea that Jupiter's visible clouds are formed of ammonia ...

The discovery, based on data collected by the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT), helps us understand how stars survive in environments with extreme gravity ...

Scientists have uncovered the existence of a binary star system close to the black hole near the center of the Milky Way galaxy.

The array is located less than 10 km southeast of the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO’s) existing Paranal Observatory in the Atacama Desert. © CTAO The European Commission today established the ...

The discovery, based on data collected by the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO's VLT), helps us understand how stars survive in environments with extreme gravity ...