New images of a young star, 2MASSJ1612, could have captured the birth of a giant gas planet larger than Jupiter.

A new telescope project called the Next-Generation Very Large Array will revolutionize radio astronomy if it gets the funding ...

The plains house the aptly named Very Large Array (VLA)—a radio telescope made of 27 different antennas, each of which looks ...

When it was completed in 1998, the Very Large Telescope was the biggest telescope in the Southern Hemisphere. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

An international team of astronomers, led by University of Galway, has discovered the likely site of a new planet in ...

The European Southern Observatory (ESO)'s Extremely Large Telescope is seen taking shape in this May 1 , 2025 photo captured directly above the construction site. Construction on ESO's Extremely ...

The dazzling full moon sets behind the Very Large Telescope in Chile's Atacama Desert in this photo released June 7, 2010 by the European Southern Observatory. The moon appears larger than normal ...

This image, taken with the Multi-Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), shows the nearby galaxy NGC 4254. NGC 4254 is a grand-design spiral galaxy located ...

With Very Large Telescope, astronomers spy a planet being born around a young star × Astronomers have captured the first clear image of a planet caught in the act of being born.

The ESO’s Very Large Telescope looms in the foreground of this image, and a star map has been superimposed on the night sky to show the locations of Alpha Centauri and Proxima Centauri.

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. A baby planet was just spotted by scientists using the Very Large Telescope in Chile.

ESO's Extremely Large Telescope at Cerro Armazones in Chile's Atacama Desert is seen from directly above while its construction continues. | Credit: ESO/G / Vecchia The European Southern ...