At the Paranal Observatory, the UT4 telescope doesn't just stargaze—it actively creates its own stars using powerful lasers ...

The European Southern Observatory bills its Very Large Telescope array as the world's most advanced optical instrument. Each of the four Unit telescopes, boasting mirrors 27 feet (8.2 meters ...

Near the center of the Milky Way are enormous filaments of radio energy that sometimes look like bones, and one in particular ...

Simulations imitating the ELT's operational state have shown that the Very Large Telescope's (VLT ... will feature a 39-meter-wide primary mirror array, lending it nearly 14 times the light ...

This is not an incremental step forward: the Allen Telescope Array was constructed to increase the stellar reconnaissance for artificial signals by orders of magnitude. It is a very large step for ...

The latest discovery marks the first-ever "compelling clue" that a black hole may be present in the enigmatic galaxy, ...

New Mexico has long been a leader in radio astronomy, with the iconic Very Large Array (VLA) standing as a symbol of ...

By analyzing the data from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), astronomers have investigated a ...

They’ve conducted research with the Hubble Space Telescope, the Chandra X-ray Observatory, the Very Large Array (VLA), and many other facilities. Recent projects have used the Gemini-North telescope ...