An in-depth technical analysis by the European Southern Observatory (ESO) has evaluated the impact of the INNA megaproject on ...

With its clear, dark skies, northern Chile is home to two fifths of the world's astronomical infrastructure, but could that be under threat with increasing urbanisation and mining development?

JOHN BARTLETT, BYLINE: When night falls over the Paranal Observatory, which operates one ... Energy company, AES Andes, has put forward plans for the country's first industrial-scale green ...

With its clear, dark skies, northern Chile is home to two fifths of the world's astronomical infrastructure, but could that be under threat with increasing urbanisation and mining development ...

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 ...

In February 2025, conditions were just right to catch a "planetary party" above the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Paranal Observatory. In new photos of this planet parade, the wispy glow ...

New images from the Very Large Telescope (VLT) at the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Paranal Observatory suggest that the galaxy, known as NGC 3640, may soon merge with a smaller galactic ...

The area is home to the Paranal Obser­vatory, which houses the European South­ern Observatory’s Very Large ... part of Chile’s plans to become carbon neutral, risks clouding the view ...

The Paranal Observatory is a world-leading location for cutting-edge ... 3,000 hectares - an area roughly equivalent to the city of Garching near Munich. The plans include a port, various production ...