Garching bei München, Germany -- The Council of the European Southern Observatory (ESO) has appointed Andreas Kaufer to be ...

SANTIAGO, Sept 28 (Reuters) - Chile authorities on Wednesday were scouring an arid mountainous region of the country in a search for British astronomer Thomas Marsh who disappeared more than 10 days ...

The new BlackGEM telescopic array at the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO’s) La Silla Observatory in Chile has officially begun scanning the southern skies, searching for the sources of ...

The body of British astronomer Thomas Marsh, who went missing in September, has been found by Chilean police. Marsh, a 60 year-old-professor at the University of Warwick, was working at La Silla ...

The BlackGEM array, consisting of three new telescopes located at ESO’s La Silla Observatory, has begun operations. The telescopes will scan the southern sky to hunt down the cosmic events that ...

A new robotic telescope has had first light at ESO’s La Silla Observatory, in Chile. TRAPPIST (TRAnsiting Planets and PlanetesImals Small Telescope) is devoted to the study of planetary systems ...

This magnificent view of the region around the star R Coronae Australis was created from images taken with the Wide Field Imager (WFI) at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile. R Coronae Australis lies ...

The galaxies in this cosmic pairing, captured by the Wide Field Imager on the MPG/ESO 2.2-meter telescope at the La Silla Observatory in Chile, display some curious features, demonstrating that each ...

The search for rocky, Earth-like exoplanets has received a boost, with the arrival of a new laser frequency comb at the European Southern Observatory’s La Silla Observatory in Chile. Built by a team ...

SANTIAGO, Nov 10 (Reuters) - Chilean authorities on Thursday said they found the body of a British astronomer who went missing in mid-September at an observatory in the north of the country, where he ...