As night falls on the Atacama desert in northern Chile four giant telescopes turn their gaze towards the star-strewn heavens.

As night falls on the Atacama desert in northern Chile four giant telescopes turn their gaze towards the star-strewn heavens.

"For the first time, we could trace the boundary between the gas residing in galaxies and the material contained within the ...

Chile's pristine, dark desert skies, world-renowned for astronomy, are at risk of being outshined by urban and industrial ...

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

Chile's dark, starry skies, crucial for astronomy, face threats from urban expansion. Astronomers, including Angel Otarola, ...

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

Is Earth really exceptional?  A new book seems to reaffirm that notion.  But given the right conditions, primitive life may be a mere byproduct of biophysics.

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

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 ...

Photographers have been sharing their photographs of Comet G3 (ATLAS), which burned bright during January in the southern hemisphere ...

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