Beneath Chile’s brilliant skies, the ELT grows—an engineering giant ready to capture the secrets of the universe with the ...

The massive dome measures 305 feet (93 meters) in diameter, or about the size of a football field and stands 263 feet (80 ...

plans to construct a large renewable hydrogen facility in Chile, just a few kilometers from Mount Paranal, home to the ...

China called on Chile to approve the construction of a Chinese observatory in the country’s north and overcome US ...

With the installation of the world's biggest telescope planned in northern Chile many communities there ... is to be built on Cerro Armazones, a mountain about 80 miles southeast of the city ...

The high-precision observatory consists of four 27-foot-wide (8.2 meters) telescopes that act ... opened its first observatory in Chile on the La Silla mountain, to the south of Paranal, in ...

SANTIAGO, Chile — China struck a defiant stance on Tuesday in response to American concerns about Beijing's efforts to expand ...

Telescopes are almost never located in highly ... at higher altitudes and in drier climates. Cerro Pachón, the mountain in Chile where the LSST will be located, was chosen as the best option ...

Later this year, astronomers will start filming an unprecedented 10-year movie of the southern sky, using a brand-new and super-powerful telescope facility in Chile.

An curved arrow pointing right. The European Southern Observatory is building an enormous new telescope high in the Atacama Desert in Chile. Even though the location is on the other side of the ...

The seemingly odd location, far below Japan's Mount Kamioka ... The twin Gemini telescopes, one in Hawaii and one in Chile, are powerful optical-infrared instruments that together can observe ...

In grilling Judd, Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire described China’s planned telescope in Chile — as well as its space mission control station already operating in neighboring ...