Stunning photos show bright comet lighting up the dark skies above ESO'sParanal Observatory, future home of the world's ...

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

Paranal telescope operator Marcela Espinoza says it's essential for Chile to preserve 'the best skies in the world' so that other countries keep choosing the region to install their telescopes ...

In the above image, the black holes are the bright white spots in the center of the gas clouds. The purple cloud represents ...

Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) soared through the starry skies above the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Paranal Observatory in Chile, home to the Very Large Telescope and future site of the ...

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

The establishment of industrial projects in the Atacama Desert in northern Chile would severely compromise the observational capacities of the Very Large Telescope, the Extremely Large Telescope ...

A newly discovered asteroid named 2024 YR4 now has a 2.2% chance of affecting Earth in 2032 after recent observations.

Supermassive black holes are seen as sources of wanton cosmic destruction, but there may be more to their powerful influence ...

CERRO ARMAZONES, Chile, Jan 28 (Reuters) - Dozens of boxes holding mirrors are placed along a remote desert hill in northern Chile as workers make progress in the construction of the Extremely ...

On March 15, 2024, a space-based observatory detected bursts of low-energy X-rays from deep in the ancient universe, ...

Astronomers have taken a crucial step in showing that the most massive black holes in the universe can create their own meals ...