The ELT could identify biosignatures on planets in our solar system as well as orbiting Proxima Centauri within hours.
The Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), currently under construction in northern Chile, will give us a better view of the Milky Way than any ground-based telescope before it. It's difficult to overstate ...
Over the past few years or so the most talked about kind of telescope was the one that is meant to operate in space. An ...
Early simulations show that it would take only 10 hours for the forthcoming ELT to find signs of life near Proxima Centauri.
For the first time, a giant helical structure spanning millions of kilometers has been captured on camera as it emerged from ...
With METIS and MICADO, two instruments for what will be the largest optical telescope in the world, the Extremely Large ...