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

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

Astronomers have detected oxygen in the most distant galaxy ever observed, JADES-GS-z14-0, shaking up our understanding of ...

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

A green energy plant expected to be built in Chile's Atacama Desert could increase night-time sky brightness at one of the world's most valuable astronomical locations by up to 35%, a new study ...

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

Two different teams of astronomers have detected oxygen in the most distant known galaxy, JADES-GS-z14-0. The discovery, reported in two separate studies, was made possible thanks to the Atacama Large ...

The Canadian-built Atacama Cosmology Telescope in the high Chilean desert mountains, which has just given up its final batch ...

Chile's Atacama desert is the driest non-polar region ... Comets "burn brightly" and "flawless trails of stars" and nebulae "streak the night sky". From our morning news briefing to a weekly ...