Observations from the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope helped show that the expected trajectory of asteroid 2024 YR4 poses nearly zero risk of impacting Earth in 2032.

A comet called ATLAS dazzled the southern skies for the last few weeks. Now it's heading out of view for half a million years ...

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?

Located atop Cerro Paranal, an 8,645-foot-high (2,635 m) mountain in Chile's Atacama Desert, the VLT is also subject to clear, dark skies, enhancing its ability to track faint objects like 2024 ...

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 ...