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

Two different teams of astronomers have detected oxygen in the most distant known galaxy, JADES-GS-z14-0. The discovery, ...

Astronomers have confirmed the existence of four planets orbiting a star less than 6 light-years away with help from some of ...

This eye-catching Picture of the Week was captured from ESO’s Paranal Observatory. Home to ESO’s Very Large Telescope, the observatory sits proudly atop the 2635-metre-high Cerro Paranal in Northern ...

The latest discovery marks the furthest detection of oxygen ever made and defies what we thought about how galaxies formed in the early universe.

The project in the Atacama Desert could increase light pollution by up to 50%, making it much harder to observe the cosmos ...

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

An in-depth technical analysis by the European Southern Observatory (ESO) has evaluated the impact of the INNA megaproject on the facilities at the Paranal Observatory, Chile—and the results are ...