The VLT will be watching as DART impacts an asteroid

Meet the scientists who will do the observations

Five minutes with Rob Ivison

ESO’s Director for Science talks offending Greeks with sausages, opening his own coffee shop and the future of astronomy

The behemoth behind the brightness

Finding one of the biggest black holes in the Universe powering the brightest quasar ever detected

How the VLT came to pass

The climax of half a century of infrared astronomy

Twinkle, twinkle little star, but not on our watch

Who’s who on the ELT: part I

The faces behind the world’s biggest eye on the sky

A spotlight on Claudia Cid

A telescope operator on fixing banana stars, searching for lasers and enjoying Paranal sunrises

A taste of ESPRESSO

At the bleeding edge of exoplanet pursuit

Future science

What will the Extremely Large Telescope reveal about the Universe?

Celebrating women at ESO — part II

Talking motivation, role models, and those ‘Eureka!’ moments

Celebrating women at ESO — part I

Talking hopes, challenges, and the future of astronomy

Five minutes with Andreas Kaufer

ESO’s Director of Operations talks maps, mops and modern technology

Remembering Lodewijk Woltjer

ESO staff pay tribute to former Director General

50 years of CCDs

The story of a detector that changed the course of astronomy

Witnessing the birth of planets

Astronomer Jos de Boer on how he searches for baby planets around young stars

A date with a formidable science machine

An ESO Fellow on what it’s like to use the Very Large Telescope to discover more about the Universe

Cosmic lighthouses

ESO Fellow Trystyn Berg on why he uses some of the most energetic known objects to probe the foggy parts of the Universe

Remembering Riccardo Giacconi

ESO staff pay tribute to former Director General

Home sweet home

How to decide where a telescope should spend its life

The first rung on the cosmic distance ladder

Predicting the future of the Universe by measuring the distance to our closest galactic neighbour