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

Stunning photos show bright comet lighting up the dark skies above ESO'sParanal Observatory, future home of the world's ...

Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids.

The Extremely Large Telescope, under construction in Chile, aims to explore exoplanets for potential life and examine the ...

The scientific community is warning about a 3,000-hectare power plant that is jeopardizing the darkness of the skies over the ...

Astronomers discovered the gas giant planet — dubbed a "hot Jupiter " — in 2016, but have continued to investigate this ...

Supermassive black holes are seen as sources of wanton cosmic destruction, but there may be more to their powerful influence ...

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

From the radio telescope array charting complex ... That community includes U.S. and Chilean citizens. Each observatory dedicates significant resources to promoting science and astronomy.

STORY: Among the remote desert hills of northern Chile lies the aptly named “Extremely Large Telescope.”:: Cerro Armazones, ...

The telescope, currently about 60% complete ... the European Southern Observatory's representative in Chile. "We're going to see with a lot of detail, and characterize stars that are in other ...