A groundbreaking telescope currently being built in northern Chile could detect potential signs of alien life in under half a day, according to a simulation study. The Extremely Large Telescope ...

The Very Large Telescope is situated atop Cerro Paranal, an 8,645-foot-high (2,635 m) mountain in Chile's Atacama Desert, about 75 miles (120 km) south of the port city of Antofagasta. The VLT has ...

The Extremely Large Telescope will revolutionize our view of the cosmos when it sees first light in Chile in 2028. In fact, it could detect hints of alien life around our closest neighboring star ...

A project expected to bring major changes to humanity's understanding of the universe, the Extremely Large Telescope with a main mirror nearly 40 meters across, is being assembled in Chile's ...

The first mirrors for the European Southern Observatory's Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) arrived at the scope’s future home in Chile just in time for Christmas, but the unboxing process is ...

ESO's Extremely Large Telescope at Cerro Armazones in Chile's Atacama Desert is seen from directly above while its construction continues. | Credit: ESO/G / Vecchia The European Southern ...

The Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), currently under construction in northern Chile, will give us a better view of the Milky Way than any ground-based telescope before it. It's difficult to ...

At Cerro Armazones, near Paranal, we are building “the world’s biggest eye on the sky” — ESO’s Extremely Large Telescope. From our offices in Santiago, Chile we support our operations in ...

The construction site of ESO’s Extremely Large Telescope at Cerro Armazones, in Chile's Atacama Desert You might think that once the ELT is up and running, all other telescopes will be rendered ...

Feb. 20 (UPI) --Chile's Very Large Telescope has captured direct images of a bright, Jupiter-like exoplanet after data from two European Space Agency satellites showed a gravitational pull on the ...

A telescope the size of a stadium is rising in the Chilean desert. It promises images of the cosmos sharper and richer than we've ever seen. The only problem? It's never been done before.