We’ve learned that Mars is the only planet in our solar system that could be habitable, thanks to its temperature and the ...

This galaxy's central black hole appears to be a "messy eater" as its interstellar scraps are strewn into space.

The European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope observed asteroid 2024 YR4 in Jan. 2025. The probability of the ...

Simulations imitating the ELT's operational state have shown that the Very Large Telescope's (VLT) giant successor will take mere hours to find signs of life on other bodies—if there are any to ...

To confirm that TOI-512b is a real planet, and not a false-positive brought about by activity on the star, the ESPRESSO ...

Except for a handful of very large bodies imaged by ground-based telescopes, virtually all exoplanets have been detected only when they briefly dim the light coming from their host stars or when ...

Though still only in the prototype stage, this flat lens could one day be used on space telescopes, and perhaps even on amateur telescopes.

The analysis reveals that INNA would increase light pollution above the Very Large Telescope (VLT) by at least 35% and by more than 50% above the south site of the Cherenkov Telescope Array ...

Marconcini et al. A distant galaxy is home to a ravenous supermassive black hole that appears to be playing with its food in a lively new image from the Very Large Telescope. The photo suggests ...