With its clear, dark skies, northern Chile is home to two fifths of the world's astronomical infrastructure, but could that be under threat with increasing urbanisation and mining development?

Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) soared through the starry skies above the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Paranal Observatory in Chile, home to the Very Large Telescope and future site of the ...

The Paranal Observatory is situated on Cerro Paranal, 8,645 feet above sea level, and is home to the famous Very Large Telescope (VLT), among other instruments.

The Paranal Observatory, in the Atacama Desert in Chile, which is part of the European Southern Observatory (ESO), will receive a telescope made in Portugal in 2025, to observe the Sun.