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

Angel Otarola, an astronomer and member of the light pollution committee of the Chilean Astronomical Society (SOCHIAS), says ...

The Vatican Observatory’s summer school, known as “Specola,” has already selected students for its next edition. During the month of June, 25 students who were selected from among 120 ...

One astronomer calls the possible Chilean facility a “nightmare” for the Paranal Observatory’s dark skies. One study has found that Paranal, located in Chile’s Atacama Desert, has the ...

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 ...

The house that's served as the residence for every vice president from Walter Mondale to Kamala Harris and now JD Vance is located on the grounds of the United States Naval Observatory.

It was established in 1853 as the observatory of Utrecht University. From 1854 until 1897, it was the first-ever home of the Dutch Weather Institute (KNMI). Here, scientists made some of the ...

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 ...