Dozens of boxes holding mirrors are placed along a remote desert hill in northern Chile as workers make progress in the ...

Observatories in Chile’s Atacama Desert, including the world’s largest optical telescope, could be blinded by light pollution ...

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

Workers in Chile are making progress on the Extremely Large Telescope, planned as one of the most capable astronomical ...

Astronomers recently identified asteroid 2024 YR4, which has a 1.3% chance of impacting Earth at the end of December 2032.

The risk of an asteroid hitting Earth has doubled in a week – but there are no plans yet to build a spacecraft to ­deflect the football pitch-sized rock. A 90-metre-wide space rock passed Earth on ...

While it is already dimming after a close encounter with the sun, Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) – also called the Great Comet of ...

The Extremely Large Telescope, under construction in Chile, aims to explore exoplanets for potential life and examine the ...

A mirror is seen at the site where European Southern Observatory (ESO) is constructing the world's largest optical telescope atop a mountain in Chile's arid Atacama desert, in Chile, January 26, 2025.

Work Progresses on Giant Telescope in Chile's Atacama Desert By Rodrigo Gutierrez CERRO ARMAZONES, Chile (Reuters) - Dozens of boxes holding mirrors are placed along a remote desert hill in ...

The establishment of industrial projects in the Atacama Desert in northern Chile would severely compromise the observational capacities of the Very Large Telescope, the Extremely Large Telescope ...