When Eduardo Unda-Sanzana arrived in Chile’s Atacama Desert to teach astronomy, the darkness was disorienting. The remote location of the small observatory at Catholic University of the North made it ...

One of the darkest slices of night sky on the planet may soon be threatened by the construction of an enormous industrial complex. This megaproject, which was proposed in December by U.S. power ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Leading scientists from around the world have called on the Chilean government to protect the dark skies over the Paranal ...

CERRO ARMAZONES, Chile (Reuters) - Dozens of boxes holding mirrors are placed along a remote desert hill in northern Chile as workers make progress in the construction of the Extremely Large Telescope ...

Tierra Atacama reopens in San Pedro de Atacama after a $20 million renovation. Explore the the desert at Chile's iconic adventure lodge.

The University of Tokyo Atacama Observatory has been in the works for 26 years. The University of Tokyo Atacama Observatory has been in the works for 26 years. is a former weekend editor who covered ...

SANTIAGO, Chile — Chile’s Atacama Desert is one of the darkest spots on Earth, a crown jewel for astronomers who flock to study the origins of the universe in this inhospitable desert along the ...

A solar facility with an installed power of 9 MW has come online at the Paranal Observatory operated by the European Southern Observatory (ESO). The PV plant is also intended to power the world’s ...

Growing up in Chile’s Atacama Desert, Paulina Villalobos thought the Milky Way’s presence in the pristine starry skies was a given. Her father, an amateur astronomer, would wake her when a comet ...

Although we have a gaggle of space telescopes floating around these days, there is still a lot of value in ground-based telescopes. These generally operate in the visible light spectrum, but infrared ...