This eye-catching Picture of the Week was captured from ESO’s Paranal Observatory. Home to ESO’s Very Large Telescope, the observatory sits proudly atop the 2635-metre-high Cerro Paranal in Northern ...

The site was chosen for its altitude, placing the telescope above as much atmospheric disturbance as possible. The air has a ...

Astronomers have confirmed the existence of four planets orbiting a star less than 6 light-years away with help from some of ...

Chile's Atacama desert is the driest non-polar region on Earth, where "the sky shines when the sun sets", said The Guardian.

M17, often called the Omega, the Swan, and the Checkmark Nebula, stars in a new image taken by the VISTA telescope in Chile.

A massive chemical plant is causing a "celestial crisis" in Chile's stargazing stronghold, said Reuters. Experts are warning that the South American nation's "pristine" dark desert skies, which ...

This image shows comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) from the European Southern Observatory near its Very Large Telescope (which is visible on the mountaintop of Cerro Paranal at left) as seen by ESO ...

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?

Towering over the Atacama Desert on Cerro Armazones ... The ELT will be 20 times more powerful than the VLT at Paranal. The telescope's main mirror will be made up of 798 individual hexagonal ...

Two different teams of astronomers have detected oxygen in the most distant known galaxy, JADES-GS-z14-0. The discovery, reported in two separate studies, was made possible thanks to the Atacama Large ...

Two different teams of astronomers have detected oxygen in the most distant known galaxy, JADES-GS-z14-0. The discovery, ...