The dream of finding life on an alien Earth-like world is hampered by a number of technical challenges. Not the least of ...

The LIFE mission would feature four space telescopes acting together to search for biosignatures on rocky planets in the ...

Despite decades of searching for this signal, astronomers have yet to find it. The problem is that our Earth is too noisy, making it nearly impossible to capture this whisper. The solution is to go to ...

The other remarkable achievement taking shape on Paranal is the VLT interferometer. This setup, common in radio astronomy, capitalizes on the fact that if a telescope has a larger aperture ...

Optical interferometry has been a long-proven science method that involves using several separate telescopes to act as one big telescope, thus achieving more accurate data as opposed to each ...

VLT, an interferometer consisting of four 28-foot-wide (8.5 m) telescopes that work together as one, is one of the world's most powerful astronomical instruments. It captured the first ever image ...

NASA's proposed return to the moon via Artemis missions offers astronomers a chance to deploy an interferometer and other telescopes. That would take advantage of an environment supported by the ...

Refracting telescopes dominated the nineteenth century ... To obtain a good image, an optical or infrared interferometer needs to take light from multiple apertures, correct for phase differences ...

Data from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) has now given researchers new detailed images of the universe's earliest ...