Hoping to see deeper into the universe, scientists and engineers are designing some of the largest and weirdest telescopes ...

The successful creation of a guide star above the European Southern Observatory (ESO) Paranal site in Chile with freshly installed lasers marks a new era of interferometry, according to the ESO team.

This animation, provided by the Max-Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE), shows the path of light inside GRAVITY+, an instrument and a large and complex upgrade to ESO’s Very Large ...

We now have direct images of two supermassive black holes: M87* and Sag A*. The fact that we can capture such images is ...

Radio interferometric imaging represents a pivotal advance in astronomical observation by combining signals from distributed radio telescopes to synthesise high-resolution images of celestial objects.

The scientists who precisely measure the position of Earth are in a bit of trouble. Their measurements are essential for the satellites we use for navigation, communication and Earth observation every ...

Radio telescopes are instruments that capture faint radio signals from space and convert them into images of celestial bodies. To observe distant ...