By combining all four telescope units of the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT), they found powerful winds carrying chemical elements like iron and titanium ...

The researchers peered through the atmosphere of WASP-121b, an exoplanet also called Tylos, by combining all four telescope units of the European Southern Observatory’s Chile-based Very Large ...

The researchers peered through the atmosphere of WASP-121b, a planet also called Tylos, by combining all four telescope units of the European Southern Observatory's Chile-based Very Large Telescope, ...

The area is home to the Paranal Observatory, which houses the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope, used by astronomers to search the Milky Way with "unparalleled clarity ...

The spectrographs, employed on two of the European Southern Observatory’s telescopes in Chile, were able to measure the planet’s gravitational effect on its parent star on its unusual orbit in ...

The figure is down to almost zero for the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope, or the VLT, located at an altitude of 2,600 meters on Cerro Paranal in the Atacama Desert.

Join us for the Mary Jackson Named Lecture, an event held in honor of Mary Jackson (1921-2005), the first black female aerospace engineer at NASA. This lecture celebrates her groundbreaking ...

The best set of photos of comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) was taken from the area near the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in Paranal; this is in the Atacama Desert, one best places for stargazing in ...

A new breakthrough in cosmic mapping has unveiled the structure of a colossal filament, part of the vast cosmic web that connects galaxies. Dark matter and gas shape these filaments, but their faint ...