The University of Michigan has been announced as one of two American institutions helping with the design and construction of ...

As the largest optical telescope in the world, the ELT will allow scientists to dive further into our universe than ever before. The ELT’s 39-metre ‘eye on the sky’ will capture some of the clearest ...

Green light for MOSAIC on the ELT. Today, ESO has signed an agreement with a large international consortium for the design and construction of the Multi-Object Spectrograph (MOSAI ...

Newly released stunning images show that the Extremely Large Telescope is now halfway complete. The images taken in June show the structure of the revolutionary ground-based Extremely Large Telescope ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Recent progress photos of the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Extremely Large Telescope ...

MPE Director and Nobel Laureate Reinhard Genzel is spearheading an open letter signed by nearly 30 eminent international ...

The European Southern Observatory’s Extremely Large Telescope (ESO’s ELT) is a revolutionary ground-based telescope that will have a 39-metre main mirror and will be the largest telescope in the world ...

Early simulations show that it would take only 10 hours for the forthcoming ELT to find signs of life near Proxima Centauri. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in a new window ...

A new study shows the European Extremely Large Telescope will be able to directly image and study the atmospheres of some potentially habitable exoplanets. When you purchase through links on our site, ...

Astronomers get to ask some of the most fundamental questions there are, ranging from whether we’re alone in the cosmos to what the nature of the mysterious dark energy and dark matter making up most ...

Astronomers get to ask some of the most fundamental questions there are, ranging from whether we’re alone in the cosmos to what the nature of the mysterious dark energy and dark matter making up most ...

It is the colours of a sunset that inspire Joseph Anderson, an astronomer at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in the high Atacama desert, in northern Chile. “They start off very blue and ...