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

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 city of Flagstaff has taken big steps to preserve the clarity of its night sky. Find out the best ways to experience the ...

telescope operators, and more drove home the point that astronomers are only one part of a much larger community standing behind these successful observatories. That community includes U.S. and ...

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 ...