Construction has begun on a new telescope designed to map one of the universe’s ...

New Mexico’s Plains of San Agustin are otherworldly: Silence, sand and sharp plants reign on the valley floor. Knobbly volcanic rock rises above. Pronghorns’ legs and jackrabbits’ ears break up the ...

The Cherenkov Telescope Array just got a major boost for distributing its data, a development that will expedite scientific discovery using the observatory. Reading time 2 minutes The European ...

MOTHRA observing at night. Each mount is equipped with a wide area web cam. Besides the mount in the foreground two others ...

Paranal, Chile, 17 December 2025 — Representatives from the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO), the European Southern Observatory (ESO), and governmental authorities gathered today to ...

Targeting star systems identified by Kepler Space Telescope (especially those in habitable-zone candidate planets). Surveying a region near the Milky Way’s Galactic Center (where stellar density is ...

CTAO Science Data Management Centre on the DESY campus in Zeuthen, Germany. Credit: DESY. Zeuthen, Germany – On 14 October 2024, the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO), along with hosting ...