ESOChile's pristine, dark desert skies are world-renowned for astronomy.But now the community says they are at risk of being ...

Chile's renowned dark skies face threats from industrial development. Astronomer Angel Otarola highlights concerns about ...

Observatories in Chile’s Atacama Desert, including the world’s largest optical telescope, could be blinded by light pollution ...

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

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

A brilliant comet waved its tail above the site of the world's largest telescope as it lit up the night sky last month.

A stronomers using the Very Large Telescope at the European Southern Observatory in Chile have imaged a filament of the ...

Dozens of boxes holding mirrors are placed along a remote desert hill in northern Chile as workers make progress in the ...

This map shows the locations of the observatories on our packed itinerary. Credit: Astronomy: Roen Kelly Our nine-day program officially began June 18, 2017, in Chile’s capital, Santiago.

That camera, called LSSTCam (the telescope was originally called the Large Scale Synoptic Telescope), has 21 times the field of view of the ComCam and is a whopping 3,200-megapixel imager. Scientists ...

CERRO ARMAZONES, Chile (Reuters) - Dozens of boxes holding mirrors are placed along a remote desert hill in northern Chile as ...

The NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory will create an opportunity for precision in space exploration that has never been ...