At ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile’s Atacama Desert, visitors can experience some of the darkest and clearest night skies ...

A dazzling snapshot from ESO’s Paranal Observatory captures a rare sky parade — the Moon, a comet, and nearly every visible planet strung across the heavens. This celestial lineup is an optical ...

Like the Star Wars planet, a distant world follows a path around two stars, both of them small, cool bodies called brown ...

Just as Luke Skywalker watched two suns set from his sandy home planet Tatooine, a newly discovered planet called 2M1510 is ...

The massive dome measures 305 feet (93 meters) in diameter, or about the size of a football field and stands 263 feet (80 ...

Scientists used the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT) to make this exciting discovery. Several ...