In the movie Contact, the action starts with the Very Large Array, a large radio telescope in the U.S., picking up an alien ...

The space-based observatory has revolutionized the way we see space, and it can now add another remarkable accomplishment to ...

Very massive stars (VMSs) have had a massive impact on the formation of our universe. However, there aren't very many of them ...

New observations show a star that blew up in two separate bursts, confirming a long-suspected cosmic phenomenon called a ...

The plains house the aptly named Very Large Array (VLA)—a radio telescope made of 27 different antennas, each of which looks like a home satellite dish on steroids. When the antennas are pointed ...

ESO hosts four different telescopes in Chile: the Very Large Telescope (VLT), the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT, which is currently being ...

I've observed a few times with some very large telescopes, at Mount Wilson Observatory, Yerkes Observatory, and McDonald Observatory, but this was at the top of the list for aperture and a modern ...

ESO's Extremely Large Telescope at Cerro Armazones in Chile's Atacama Desert is seen from directly above while its construction continues.

European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope took photos a rare supernova roughly 300 years after it happened ...

Astronomers have created a magnificent visual map of the spiral galaxy using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope.

Images from the Very Large Telescope suggest that a galaxy called NGC 3640 has a history of absorbing smaller galaxies.

Next-Generation Very Large Array Will Spot Baby Solar Systems—If It’s Funded A new telescope project called the Next-Generation Very Large Array will revolutionize radio astronomy if it gets ...