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) ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

Water harvesting from foggy air provided up to 5 liters of water a day in a yearlong Chilean desert experiment.

As night falls on the Atacama desert in northern Chile four giant ... The area is home to the Paranal Observatory, which houses the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope, used ...

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