"If this initiative is focused on astronomical observation, it should be noted that, according to current regulations, private entities are not permitted to enter into international agreements on this ...

The U.S. aimed to restrict Beijing's access to resources in Chile and had pressured it to curtail space cooperation in a ...

A hypothetical office overlooking the Paranal Observatory in Chile, with the European Southern Observatory’s VLT visible with its laser on the hill, and the four small SPECULOOS telescopes nearer the ...

High school senior Matteo Paz stunned the astronomy world by uncovering 1.5 million previously unknown cosmic objects using a ...

The 18-year-old won $250,000 for training a machine learning model to analyze understudied data from NASA's retired NEOWISE ...

High up on the top of Cerro Pachón in northern Chile, NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory is nearing completion. At the heart ...

Through his research at Caltech, a local high school student revealed 1.5 million previously unknown objects in space, ...

"This is the 5th largest planet in our solar system, lurking out there, waiting to be found," the Caltech astronomer says ...

Caltech President Thomas F. Rosenbaum announced this week that he will retire next after 12 years in the position. Rosenbaum, Caltech’s ninth president, said he will step away on June 30, 2026 ...

ITHACA, N.Y. (WBNG) -- The first component of the Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope, or FYST, has arrived at its destination, the Cerro Chajnantor mountaintop at Chile’s Parque Astronómico ...

Astronomers are about to use a powerful new telescope to scan the entire southern ... This observatory has been under construction on a mountaintop in Chile for years, and it's almost ready ...