In the middle of the arid Atacama Desert, at an altitude of over 3,000 meters, an immense silver dome is being prepared to house the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) in 2028. This will be the world's ...

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

While astronomers often set their sights on the stars, the landscapes surrounding their observatories can be just as ...

While it is already dimming after a close encounter with the sun, Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) – also called the Great Comet of ...

NASA and other world-leading space agencies are putting the most powerful eyes in the night sky on asteroid 2024 YR4, a newly ...

Space agency officials have announced a newly-discovered asteroid has a slight chance of colliding with Earth in 2032.

NASA is continuously refining its tracking of 2024 YR4, using its network of telescopes, including the repurposed WISE Space ...

Angel Otarola, an astronomer and member of the light pollution committee of the Chilean Astronomical Society (SOCHIAS), says ...

A recently discovered, sizable asteroid may come within striking distance of Earth in less than eight years. But although the ...

The telescope is a project of the European Southern Observatory intergovernmental research organisation and is under ...

The asteroid, known as 2024 YR4, measures between 130ft and 330ft (40m to 100m) and was detected last month by a Chilean telescope. It is reported that the asteroid has a slight chance of ...