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

The dark skies of Chile's Atacama Desert are perfect for skywatching ... to catch a "planetary party" above the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Paranal Observatory. In new photos of this ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Simons Observatory, a most advanced network of telescopes aimed at mapping the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) with unprecedented precision, has reached a major milestone: the Large Aperture ...

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