A powerful new observatory is the best hope yet for finding the elusive Planet 9, a large planet that some scientists say is ...

For the first time, scientists have found strong evidence of a "polar planet"—a planet whose orbit is tilted at 90 degrees ...

Astronomers are about to use a powerful new telescope to scan the entire southern ... a scientist famous for her work on dark matter. This observatory has been under construction on a mountaintop in ...

Research using detailed simulations based on public plans for the green energy plant shows serious harm to southern ...

A hypothetical office overlooking the Paranal Observatory in Chile, with the European Southern Observatory’s VLT visible with its laser on the hill, and the four small SPECULOOS telescopes nearer the ...

The Chinese Embassy in Chile on Thursday firmly opposed the recent actions and statements by the US over a China-Chile ...

Astronomers have discovered a planet that orbits at a 90-degree angle around a rare pair of strange stars—a real-life 'twist' ...

High up on the top of Cerro Pachón in northern Chile, NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory is nearing completion. At the heart ...

Astronomers are about to use a powerful new telescope to scan ... her work on dark matter. This observatory has been under construction on a mountaintop in Chile for years, and it's almost ready ...