Washington’s unease over ‘low-orbit satellites’ deployment could scuttle US$80 million project for Beijing’s astronomical ...

In February 2025, conditions were just right to catch a "planetary party" above the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) ...

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Astronomer Percival Lowell founded his Arizona stargazing lab in 1894 to aid in his search for life on Mars. While that quest is still ...

In the ALMAGAL project, an international research team will analyze observations of more than a thousand "star factories" to ...

"It feels like something out of science fiction," said European Southern Observatory astrophysicist Julia Victoria Seidel.

The facilities operated by the European Southern Observatory (ESO) are located in the Chilean commune of Taltal, in the Antofagasta Region, on the Paranal Hill in the Atacama Desert, 130 ...

The potential risk of Asteroid 2024 YR4 impacting Earth in 2032 dropped to nearly zero following new observations that helped better predict the asteroid's trajectory.

as captured by ESO's Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA), operating in Chile's Atacama Desert. Meet the colorful extravaganza of the RCW 38 stellar nursery, located some ...

A yearlong assessment of the potential volume of harvested fog water near a city in northern Chile’s Atacama Desert found that it’s possible to collect as much as 5 liters per square meter ...