The Extremely Large Telescope will revolutionize our view of the cosmos when it sees first light in Chile in 2028. In fact, ...

The Extremely Large Telescope under construction in Chile's Atacama Desert could detect signs of alien life on other planets ...

The faraway exoplanet could help provide answers as to why there are hardly any planets with twice the diameter of Earth.

in the best place on Earth for astronomy, to enable astronomers worldwide to see what no one has ever seen before," Itziar de ...

In life exploration to find out whether there is life on a distant planet, whether the planet has an atmosphere and its atmospheric composition are important clues, but it is very difficult to ...

Before it shut down, a telescope in Chile captured the universe's baby photos, just 380,000 years after the Big Bang. These ...

After a six-week ocean voyage, a week spent waiting to offload, and another week trekking through the mountains, the first major component of the Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope (FYST) has arrived ...

The new images capture light that travelled for more than 13 billion years to reach the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) in ...

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

The effects of a proposed green-energy facility in Chile could be devastating for some of the most powerful instruments ...

After more than a decade of mapping the stars, the European spacecraft was shut down on Thursday. But its legacy lives on.

The Extremely Large Telescope will revolutionize our view of the cosmos when it sees first light in Chile in 2028. In fact, it could detect hints of alien life around our closest neighboring star ...