Stunning photos show bright comet lighting up the dark skies above ESO'sParanal Observatory, future home of the world's ...

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 ...

The nebulosity of hydrogen gas is revealed with the use of a “Hydrogen-Alpha” filter in an astro image of the Cygnus ...

A vast industrial plant threatens the European Southern Observatory's Paranal telescope planned only a few kilometers from the site. The ESO recently released a statement calling on the government ...

As night falls on the Atacama desert in northern Chile four giant telescopes turn their gaze towards the star-strewn heavens.

Paranal Observatory in Chile, home to the Very Large Telescope and future site of the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), which is currently under construction. When completed, the ELT will be the ...