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

cosmologists are readying themselves at the observatory placed at an altitude of 5,300 meters on Cerro Toco, in northern Chile’s Atacama Desert. “It will be the best view of the CMB that we ...

Chile's dark, starry skies, crucial for astronomy, face threats from urban expansion. Astronomers, including Angel Otarola, ...

Paranal telescope operator Marcela Espinoza says it's essential for Chile to preserve 'the best skies in the world' so that other countries keep choosing the region to install their telescopes ...

Last year, a pair of researchers claimed that the shockwaves of the shutdown could be felt as far as the moon, causing a ...

While it is already dimming after a close encounter with the sun, Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) – also called the Great Comet of ...

Chile's pristine desert skies, vital for astronomy, face threats from urban and industrial development. Astronomers, like Angel Otarola of SOCHIAS, express concerns over increasing light pollution ...

That camera, called LSSTCam (the telescope was originally called the Large Scale Synoptic Telescope), has 21 times the field of view of the ComCam and is a whopping 3,200-megapixel imager. Scientists ...

They also pose a global problem, whereas a more down-to-earth issue is cropping up at one very special observatory ... calling on the government of Chile, where Paranal is located, to consider ...

The University of Tokyo selected Chile, a nation in the Southern ... infrared with high sensitivity and a larger field of view. The observatory operated by the University of Tokyo offers ...

After 20 years in the making, the world's largest digital camera is now atop Cerro Pachón, home of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory. And it wasn't easy. Margaux Lopez on the Stanford Linear ...

CERRO PARANAL, Chile - Chile's pristine ... (SOCHIAS), says light pollution around the state-of-the-art Paranal Observatory is currently about 1% and worries about losing the darkness vital ...