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

Beneath a breathtaking full Moon, construction on the world’s largest optical and infrared telescope—the ELT—progresses in ...

In a breathtaking new photograph shared by the European Southern Observatory (ESO), the sun rises behind the Extremely Large ...

At Cerro Armazones, near Paranal, we are building “the world’s biggest eye on the sky” — ESO’s Extremely Large Telescope. From our offices in Santiago, Chile we support our operations in ...

The photo was taken by Eduardo Garcés from the Cerro Paranal mountain, home to ESO's Very Large Telescope, which is about 14 miles (23 kilometers) from the ELT, capturing a silhouette of the dome ...

The VLT may as well be on another planet itself. Getting to Cerro Paranal, the mountain on which the VLT was built, is a multi-leg, often multi-day affair. Visitors fly first to Santiago and then ...

close to Europe's existing facilities at Cerro Paranal, where an array of telescopes has been constructed. Engineers are slicing the top off the peak in preparation for the building of the telescope.

On the vast canvas of the cosmos, where starlight typically reigns supreme, there are regions in which darkness not only ...

SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — Resident group “Save Del Cerro” is legally challenging the city council’s recent approval of the All Peoples Church project, a large scale church at the ...

SAN DIEGO — When the San Diego City Council decided to reverse course and approve a 900-seat mega-church for Del Cerro, some councilmembers stated they did so to avoid a costly lawsuit from ...

Cerro El Cono is a 1,310-foot-tall (400 meters), pyramid-like formation in the Amazon rainforest. It rises steeply from the relatively flat jungle landscape of eastern Peru, making it visible from ...