Workers in Chile are making progress on the Extremely Large Telescope, planned as one of the most capable astronomical ...

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 ...

From the radio telescope array charting complex chemistry in Titan’s atmosphere to the telescopes that pinpointed the neutron star merger last year, Chilean observatories play a starring role in ...

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

The darkest and most pristine skies in the world, under which the Paranal Observatory chose to establish itself in 1999, are ...

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

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

In addition to Paranal, two other Chilean observatories are in the top three least light-polluted major astronomical observatories—Armazones and Tokyo Atacama. It also has four more in the top ...

The facilities operated by the European Southern Observatory (ESO) are located in the Chilean commune of Taltal, in the Antofagasta Region, on the Paranal Hill in the Atacama Desert, 130 ...

The European Southern Observatory is at serious risk of losing the clear skies above its Paranal Observatory in Chile’s Atacama Desert, officials said, due to a proposed industrial complex put ...

"The large volume of data from Rubin will give us a sample of all kinds of Type Ia supernovas at a range of distances and in ...