Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) seen above ESO's Paranal Observatory in Chile on Jan. 21, 2025. ESO's Very Large Telescope sits atop ...

As night falls on the Atacama desert in northern Chile four giant telescopes turn their gaze towards the star-strewn heavens.

De Gregorio, the ESO's representative in Chile, warns that the country's unique "window onto the universe" could close, ...

A brilliant comet waved its tail above the site of the world's largest telescope as it lit up the ... In these gorgeous photos from the Paranal Observatory, it's not hard to see why.

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is set to revolutionize our understanding of the cosmos by detecting millions of exploding ...

“We [will be able to] move quickly and map out very large areas of the sky,” adds Josh Schlieder, the telescope’s wide-field ...

The largest telescopes in the United States ... One was at the Yerkes Observatory in Williams Bay, Wisconsin. This is the home to the largest refractor in the world, built in the late 1800s.

Today, the observatory is home to a variety of telescopes, as well as artifacts like Lowell's first telescope, classic scientific books and instruments built by the observatory's scientists for ...

This top-down view shows NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope’s spacecraft bus from another angle. It rests atop an aluminum ring that will not be part of the observatory and is surrounded ...