By Rodrigo Gutierrez and Fabian Cambero CERRO PARANAL, Chile (Reuters) - Chile's pristine, dark desert skies, world-renowned ...

The scientific community is warning about a 3,000-hectare power plant that is jeopardizing the darkness of the skies over the ...

Chile's renowned dark skies face threats from industrial development. Astronomer Angel Otarola highlights concerns about ...

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

Instead both groups are asking that INNA be moved at least 50 km away from the observatories. Chiara Mazzucchelli, president of SOCHIAS, believes that both projects can coexist. “Chile has the ...

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

Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids.

The European Southern Observatory is at serious risk of losing the clear skies above its Paranal Observatory in Chile’s Atacama Desert, officials said, due to a proposed industrial complex put ...

That camera, called LSSTCam (the telescope was originally called the Large Scale Synoptic Telescope), has 21 times the field of view of the ComCam and is a whopping 3,200-megapixel imager. Scientists ...

This complex threatens the pristine skies above ESO's Paranal Observatory in Chile's Atacama Desert, the darkest and clearest of any astronomical observatory in the world. The industrial ...