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

In February 2025, conditions were just right to catch a "planetary party" above the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) ...

telescope in Chile's Atacama Desert, which has sharpened our view of this mysterious region of space by 100 percent. "When we checked the ALMA images showing the outflows, we noticed these long ...

Astronomers have detected oxygen in the most distant galaxy ever found. It’s 13.4 billion light-years away from Earth, according to new research.

"Light pollution from projects like INNA doesn't just hinder research, it steals our shared view of the universe." ...

Chile's Atacama desert is the driest non-polar region on Earth, where "the sky shines when the sun sets", said The Guardian.

The effects of a proposed green-energy facility in Chile could be devastating for some of the most powerful instruments ...

This record-breaking detection is making astronomers rethink how quickly galaxies formed in the early Universe.

The Canadian-built Atacama Cosmology Telescope in the high Chilean desert mountains, which has just given up its final batch ...

If our 13.8 billion-year-old cosmos could be considered middle-aged, researchers note these new images captured around its ...

Stretching across northern Chile and southern Peru, the Atacama is the driest non-polar desert on the planet. With its "Martian landscapes" and sprawling salt flats, the arid "geographical ...

The moon, the Milky Way, Saturn, Venus, Jupiter Mars, Neptune, Uranus and comet C/2024 G3 seen above the European Southern Observatory's Paranal Observatory in Chile's Atacama Desert. . | Credit ...