After more than two decades of planning and building, the world's largest digital camera at the heart of the Vera C. Rubin ...

Using the Magellan Telescopes at Las Campanas Observatory in Chile, astronomers have performed a chemical study of a globular ...

The Giant Magellan Telescope team explains how the observatory will help solve the mysteries of the cosmos including the search for life.

The Giant Magellan Telescope, one of the largest telescopes ever built, is entering the final design phase and is expected to ...

The first batch of test images from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory is scheduled to be released Monday at 11:30 a.m., followed ...

Part of the Las Campanas Observatory, in the mountains near the Atacama Desert in Chile. UChicago astronomy and astrophysics Prof. Mike Gladders took a group of undergraduate students to the facility ...

Paranal Observatory is home to ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), which comprises four telescopes each with a 27-foot (8.2-meter) mirror and four auxiliary telescopes with 6-foot (1.8-meter) mirrors.

Guillermo Blanc, an astronomer and researcher at Carnegie Institution for Science based at the Las Campanas Observatory and president of the Skies of Chile Foundation, likens the effect to hearing ...

‘A mad scramble’ The excursion is possible, in part, because the University of Chicago is a partner of the Magellan telescopes at Carnegie Science's Las Campanas Observatory and has institutional ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory aims to conduct a 10-year survey of the Southern Hemisphere sky to understand dark matter and energy, take an inventory of the solar system, and map the Milky Way.

In 1969, Carnegie opened Las Campanas Observatory in Chile’s Atacama Desert, replete with a 100-inch reflecting telescope of its own.

In 1969, Carnegie opened Las Campanas Observatory in Chile’s Atacama Desert, replete with a 100-inch reflecting telescope of its own.