A green energy plant expected to be built in Chile could increase night-time sky brightness at one of the world's most ...

A massive chemical plant is causing a "celestial crisis" in Chile's stargazing stronghold, said Reuters.Experts are warning ...

The stunning comet C/2024 G3 lights up the sunset sky over Chile's Very Large Telescope in this spectacular photo.

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

The project in the Atacama Desert could increase light pollution by up to 50%, making it much harder to observe the cosmos ...

This record-breaking detection is making astronomers rethink how quickly galaxies formed in the early Universe.

This image shows the precise location in the night sky of the galaxy JADES-GS-z14-0, an extremely tiny dot in the Fornax constellation. As of today, this is the most distant confirmed galaxy we know ...

Research by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope collaboration has led to the clearest and most precise images yet of the universe’s infancy, the cosmic microwave background radiation that was visible only ...

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 ...

B.Haeussler/ESO The dark skies of Chile's Atacama Desert are perfect for skywatching, especially when a parade of six planets and a comet grace the night sky all at once. A bright moon lights up ...