A green energy plant expected to be built in Chile could increase night-time sky brightness at one of the world's most ...

Chile's Atacama desert is the driest non-polar region on Earth, where "the sky shines when the sun sets", said The Guardian.

The stunning comet C/2024 G3 lights up the sunset sky over Chile's Very Large Telescope in this spectacular photo.

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

Chile's Atacama desert is the driest non-polar ... Comets "burn brightly" and "flawless trails of stars" and nebulae "streak the night sky". From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News ...

The project in the Atacama Desert could increase light pollution by up to 50%, making it much harder to observe the cosmos ...

More than 60 years after the first debunked discovery of a planet orbiting Barnard’s Star, the closest single-star system to ...

"We were like sardines in the dark," one passenger described the moment their underground train stalled. Many of those who had been in lifts inside the stations when the power cut happened had to be ...

The latest discovery marks the furthest detection of oxygen ever made and defies what we thought about how galaxies formed in the early universe.

Satellites connect people around the world but they also interfere with astronomers’ views of the cosmos. There are ways to ...