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

The Atacama Desert, in Chile, is the driest non-polar desert on Earth and it’s also the site of a rare phenomenon. Spanning over 600 miles along the Pacific Coast of South America, it is one ...

Astronomers have discovered a powerful jet stream raging through the atmosphere of an ultra-hot Jupiter exoplanet ravaged by ...

As night falls on the Atacama desert in northern Chile four giant telescopes turn their gaze towards the star-strewn heavens.

While astronomers often set their sights on the stars, the landscapes surrounding their observatories can be just as ...

On the Atacama Desert plateau, the Atacama Large Millimeter ... The Very Large Telescope (VLT), EU, Chile, four units of 8.1 meters each Keck Telescope, the United States, Hawaii, two units ...

For the first time, astronomers have imaged dozens of belts around nearby stars where comets and tiny pebbles within them are ...

Paranal telescope operator Marcela Espinoza says it's essential for Chile to preserve 'the best skies in the world' so that other countries keep choosing the region to install their telescopes ...

As night falls on the Atacama desert in northern Chile four giant telescopes turn their gaze towards the star-strewn heavens. The driest place on Earth is the best place to observe the universe ...