The journey of astronomical telescopes began in the early 17th century when Galileo Galilei crafted his first refracting ...
The Princess Royal offered sage advice to yachting hopefuls vying for a place in a prestigious transatlantic race – you will ...
The European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) — the world's largest visible- and infrared-light ...
The frame of the dome that will house the world's largest telescope has been completed, marking another key milestone in the observatory's construction. The European Southern Observatory's (ESO ...
The frame of the dome that will house the world's largest telescope has been completed, marking another key milestone in the observatory's construction. The European Southern Observatory's (ESO) ...
The stunning panorama features over 600 overlapping Hubble images that have been painstaking stitched together. Spread across ...
The magnificent Andromeda galaxy (Messier 31), stands out as the most important nearby stellar island to our Milky Way, and ...
Astronomers are raising concerns about the impact of light pollution from a renewable energy project on the world’s most ...
European Southern Observatory Director General Xavier Barcons told Space.com that astronomers expect the project to brighten ...
Very Large Telescope (VLT). VLT, which cost some $350 million to build in the 1990s ($840 million in today's dollars), is one of the world's most sensitive sky-watching instruments, capable of ...