The potential risk of Asteroid 2024 YR4 impacting Earth in 2032 dropped to nearly zero following new observations that helped better predict the asteroid's trajectory.

An unusual elliptical galaxy with a history of absorbing smaller galaxies appears to be approaching its next target.

Built in the 1990s at a cost of $350 million (equivalent to $840 million today), the Very Large Telescope is among the world’s most advanced sky-watching instruments. Comprising four 27-foot ...

An curved arrow pointing right. On April 26, the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope achieved “first light” on its new optics system, shooting four lasers into the sky for ...

A comet called ATLAS dazzled the southern skies for the last few weeks. Now it's heading out of view for half a million years ...

Astronomers have identified a quartet of small rocky planets orbiting Barnard's star - one of our closest stellar neighbors - ...

Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific Vol. 117, No. 835, September 2005 The Very Large Telescope Visible Multi‐O... The Very Large Telescope Visible Multi‐Object Spectrograph Mask ...

How did the universe begin? A compact NASA space telescope that uses less power than a refrigerator is poised to chip away at ...

Federal President Steinmeier visits Chile's observatories threatened by industrial pollution, emphasizing the need for ...

Using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope in Chile, astronomers have made detailed observations of the mysterious exoplanet ...

Engineers developed a groundbreaking flat lens that helps telescopes to capture color while detecting light from far away stars ...