As night falls on the Atacama desert in northern Chile four giant telescopes turn their gaze towards the star-strewn heavens.

Dozens of boxes holding mirrors are placed along a remote desert hill in northern Chile as workers make progress in the ...

Observatories in Chile’s Atacama Desert, including the world’s largest optical telescope, could be blinded by light pollution ...

Using clever light-detecting techniques, ExTrA searches red dwarf stars for planets that might support life. By studying tiny ...

Workers in Chile are making progress on the Extremely Large Telescope, planned as one of the most capable astronomical observatories ever assembled. Olivia Zollino reports. Real Madrid first club to ...

ESO estimates the complex will leak as much light pollution as a city with a population of about 20,000. Parts of the ...

While it is already dimming after a close encounter with the sun, Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) – also called the Great Comet of ...

astronomers have raised concerns regarding a renewable energy project in Chile that threatens the world's most renowned astronomical observatories. The location is in Mount Paranal, home to the ...

ESOChile's pristine, dark desert skies are world-renowned for astronomy.But now the community says they are at risk of being ...

Chile is home to SOME of the world’s best skies — and some of the world’s most advanced instruments to observe them. From the radio telescope array charting complex chemistry in Titan’s ...

The clarity of Chilean skies in the Atacama Desert may ... in which the Paranal telescopes were instrumental, it was also explained. “The industrial megaproject is planned to be located only ...

NASA and other world-leading space agencies are putting the most powerful eyes in the night sky on asteroid 2024 YR4, a newly ...