The first batch of test images from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory is scheduled to be released Monday at 11:30 a.m., followed ...

The Giant Magellan Telescope, one of the largest telescopes ever built, is entering the final design phase and is expected to ...

ESO hosts four different telescopes in Chile: the Very Large Telescope , the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array , the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT, which is currently being built), and ...

The under construction ESO Extremely Large Telescope in Chile was captured in 2025 and 2023 with the sun rising behind it. See both time-lapses here. Credit: E. Garcés/B. Häußler/ESO | edited by Space ...

To the point. One telescope, one purpose: The Hubble and James Webb space telescopes focus on detailed observations of individual objects, while the Euclid space telescope and the Vera C. Rubin ...

This might sound like an obvious thing for a professional stargazer to say. But astrophysicist Federica Bianco was reacting ...

The image, taken with the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope in Chile, shows the star surrounded by an eye-shaped disk of swirling gas and dust. A dark ring within the disk suggests ...

One of the World’s Largest Optical Telescopes Reaches Milestone Toward U.S. Federal Construction SupportPASADENA, Calif., ...

The two telescope projects form the U.S. Extremely Large Telescope program, identified in the most recent National Academy of Sciences decadal survey in 2020 as the top priority for ground-based ...

Chile hosts some of the world's most advanced observatories, such as the Very Large Telescope (VLT), the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and the future Extremely Large ...

It would be the biggest telescope in the Northern Hemisphere, making the American-led Extremely Large Telescope program even more urgent. “If we do nothing, Europe will lead in the South and ...