New data reveals a 3-million-light-year filament connecting two galaxies, each of which hosts a supermassive black hole.

As night falls on the Atacama desert in northern Chile four giant telescopes turn their gaze towards the star-strewn heavens.

The Vatican Observatory’s summer school ... that all of the students “are between 20 and 30 years old and plan to pursue doctorates in astronomy or astrophysics.” He also noted that ...

Not that I would ever encounter it anyway, since my citizens won't have time for surplus food production with all the pointless building projects I plan to demand of them. Earth grew an extra ...

Hydrogen Project Near Observatory Raises Alarm AES Energy plans to construct a massive hydrogen production facility, INNA, just a few kilometres from Mount Paranal. The industrial park would ...

AES Energy, a US-based company, plans to construct a large renewable hydrogen facility in Chile, just a few kilometers from Mount Paranal, home to the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large ...

"And that is enough to make a difference between the best observatory in the world and an average observing place." Mount Paranal, an 8,740-foot-high (2,664 m) peak in the Atacama Desert of ...

A vast industrial plant threatens the European Southern Observatory's Paranal telescope planned only a few kilometers from the site. The ESO recently released a statement calling on the government ...

The U.S. energy company AES Energy wants to build a large renewable hydrogen manufacturing complex in Chile, only a few kilometers from the summit of Mount Paranal, the site of the European Southern ...

However, the future of the Paranal Observatory remains uncertain. Astronomers worldwide are watching closely, hopeful that a compromise can be reached to preserve the Atacama Desert’s unparalleled ...

Under threat: the European Southern Observatory’s flagship Paranal Observatory in Chile’s Atacama Desert is home to the Very Large Telescope (courtesy: G.Hüdepohl/ESO) The darkest, clearest skies ...