A brilliant comet lights up the night sky over Chile's Atacama Desert in this stunning image captured by a photographer with the European Southern Observatory in January 2025. For several days in ...

A new report by the European Southern Observatory says a planned industrial megaproject will significantly brighten the skies in Chile’s Atacama Desert, jeopardizing some of the best conditions ...

The new oxygen detection with ALMA, a telescope array in Chile's Atacama Desert, suggests the galaxy ... a Ph.D. candidate at Leiden Observatory, the Netherlands, and first author of the Dutch ...

Newsweek previously reported China's involvement in an observatory in South America that researchers said could be used to "support military space operations" ...

Astronomers have revealed that "space tornadoes" are swirling around the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way, Sagittarius A*. The unexpected discovery came via observations of the ...

Thomas Richard Marsh, an astrophysicist at University of Warwick, was last seen a week ago near the astronomical observatory La Silla on the outskirts of the Atacama Desert where he is understood ...

Europe's ESO astrophysics agency said Monday that a giant green energy project billed for Chile's Atacama desert -- home to ... the European Southern Observatory (ESO) said its own technical ...

A planned Chinese observatory in Chile’s Atacama Desert is facing possible cancellation after US officials in recent months have raised concerns about its potential military applications.

Zavala (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan ... while the Chilean Atacama Desert, a marvellous place with unique conditions to observe the sky, hosts our telescopes. ESO operates three ...