In February 2025, conditions were just right to catch a "planetary party" above the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) ...

AS night falls on the Atacama desert in northern Chile ... billed as the world’s “biggest eye on the sky”, currently under cons­truction near the Paranal Observatory.

For those who love gazing at the infinite night sky, finding the perfect stargazing spot is a dream come true. Away from city ...

They had already spent a week and a half scouting other locations in the Atacama, one on the Argentine ... dry air—ideal for observing the night sky—had already lured several large ...

Using X-ray data from NASA’s Chandra X-Ray Observatory, optical data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and radio data from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, astronomers ...

Astronomers are sounding the alarm about the impact of a planned renewable energy plant in Chile’s Atacama desert. The area is home to some of the most-advanced observatories on Earth because of the ...