CERRO PARANAL, Chile - Chile's pristine, dark desert skies, world-renowned for astronomy, are at risk of being outshined by ...

It is as wide as the wing span of a 747 and has a 1 in 83 chance of hitting the Earth when it arrives in 2032. David Moore of ...

This National Astronomy Week, we celebrate all their fascinating work in space research. Our Centre for Extragalactic Astronomy (CEA) is a hub for researchers looking into the formation and evolution ...

The European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) — the world's largest visible- and infrared-light telescope — is currently under development on the Cerro Armazones mountain ...

The Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) – the largest visible and infrared light telescope in the world – is also being constructed at the observatory on ... “one of Earth’s last truly pristine dark skies ...

Because of the Atacama’s natural disposition for astronomy, it is home to many current and planned telescopes, including Paranal, the Rubin Observatory (which hosts the world’s largest digital ...

Now in its 17th year, the Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition is open for submissions. The competition is organized by the Royal Observatory Greenwich in London, England, in association ...

Solaris promises to be a major platform for education and research, with a particular focus on academic research into the Sun ...

Jupiter, Mars, Venus and Saturn are all visible with the naked eye in our night skies right now - but one planet will join the parade later this month before it disappears ...

Scintillation measurements show that FRB 20221022A originated from the highly magnetized region around a neutron star, challenging existing models of conditions there ...