Residents of the world's driest desert, the Atacama in northern Chile, woke up Thursday to a jaw-dropping spectacle: its ...

UT-Austin just took a big step in its process of building one of the largest telescopes in the world as the Giant Magellan Telescope is moving into its final design phase to get federal funding ...

Une rare couche de neige a recouvert jeudi une partie du désert d'Atacama, le plus aride au monde, dans le nord du Chili, a ...

En visite d'État au Chili, le roi Philippe et la reine Mathilde de Belgique se sont rendus, le 25 juin 2025, dans le désert d ...

Passionné d'espace et d'étoiles, le roi Philippe a eu l'occasion de visiter un grand site astronomique au Chili, où il se ...

Scenes of nebulas in the Milky Way, a cluster of galaxies and thousands of new asteroids are a teaser of how the U.S.-funded ...

ESO's Extremely Large Telescope at Cerro Armazones in Chile's Atacama Desert is seen from directly above while its construction continues.

The earliest light in the universe has been traveling across space since just after the Big Bang. Known as the cosmic ...

[VIDÉO] Le désert d'Atacama, au Chili, offre les meilleures conditions au monde pour l'observation du ciel. Les astronomes ...

Connu pour la qualité de son ciel nocturne, le désert d'Atacama pourrait pourtant perdre son statut de "sanctuaire astronomique" à cause de la construction d'une usine proche. Encore en projet ...

The so-called "Extremely Large Telescope" is being built on a mountaintop in the Andes at an elevation of about 3,000 meters. And it really is extremely large. The primary mirror will be 39 meters ...