Using the Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI), an international team of astronomers has observed a young Herbig ...

What's on and in a star? What happens in an active galactic nucleus? Answering those questions is the goal of a proposed ...

Early simulations show that it would take only 10 hours for the forthcoming ELT to find signs of life near Proxima Centauri.

Researchers took the picture using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer, located in Chile’s Atacama Desert. The unprecedented image, combined with ...

The project in the Atacama Desert could increase light pollution by up to 50%, making it much harder to observe the cosmos ...

Dr Maggie learns how the power of each of the VLT's telescopes can be combined.

This is an image of the star WOH G64, taken by the GRAVITY instrument on the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer (ESO’s VLTI). This is the first close-up ...

At Paranal, ESO operates the Very Large Telescope and its Very Large Telescope Interferometer, as well as survey telescopes such as VISTA. Also at Paranal ESO will host and operate the Cherenkov ...