A camera captured what appears to be a meteor crossing the night sky over Viña del Mar, Valparaíso, in the early hours of ...

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

ESO, in the meantime is calling for stricter legal protections of the Chilean night sky, especially in the vicinity of the precious observatories in the Atacama Desert. The Chilean government ...

ESOChile's pristine, dark desert skies are world-renowned for astronomy.But now the community says they are at risk of being ...

Photo by Ashwini Gangal. Hope distant galaxies visible from the Chilean night sky are smiling down on Earth, because they’re about to be photographed by SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory’s ...

Chile's pristine desert skies, vital for astronomy, face threats from urban and industrial development. Astronomers, like Angel Otarola of SOCHIAS, express concerns over increasing light pollution ...

The ESO is also calling for stricter legal protections of the Chilean night sky, especially around the observatories in the Atacama Desert.

Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. Venus is shining brightly over the European Southern Observatory's La Silla Observatory in Chile. What is that bright white star ...

The 62-story Gran Torre Santiago is the tallest building in South America, looming large over the city from the high-rise "Sanhattan" district. At the very top is Sky Costanera, a panoramic ...

Thanks to the unique geography of the Andes mountain range, the star-studded night sky above the summit is ... having opened its first observatory in Chile on the La Silla mountain, to the south ...