In February 2025, conditions were just right to catch a "planetary party" above the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) ...
At first sight, orange and off-white shards of rocks surrounded by dust and dirt are all you can see for thousands of desolate kilometres in the Atacama Desert of Chile. This is one of the driest ...
Stretching across northern Chile and southern Peru, the Atacama is the driest non-polar desert on the planet. With its "Martian landscapes" and sprawling salt flats, the arid "geographical ...
ATACAMA DESERT, Chile — At the top of a craggy path in Socaire, a hilltop village deep in Chile's Atacama Desert, a black flag whips in the wind above Jeanette Cruz's house. The desert sun has ...
Washington’s unease over ‘low-orbit satellites’ deployment could scuttle US$80 million project for Beijing’s astronomical ...
The angle of this new progress photo captures the altitude structure ... the top of ESO's Extremely Large Telescope in Chile's Atacama Desert. | Credit: ESO/G. Vecchia These mirrors will allow ...
Vivek Singhania shares his experience of a five-day visit to Chile, highlighting the country's welcoming environment and ...
The world's largest telescope continues to take shape on the Cerro Armazones mountain in Chile's Atacama ... rising in the desert: World's largest telescope comes together (photo) ...
The moon, the Milky Way, Saturn, Venus, Jupiter Mars, Neptune, Uranus and comet C/2024 G3 seen above the European Southern Observatory's Paranal Observatory in Chile's Atacama Desert. . | Credit ...