A rare celestial alignment was captured at the Paranal Observatory in Chile, where seven planets were visible in a small area ...

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?

Federal President Steinmeier visits Chile's observatories threatened by industrial pollution, emphasizing the need for ...

Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, accompanied by Reinhard Genzel, Director of the Max Planck Institute for ...

Chile’s pristine, dark desert skies, world-renowned for astronomy, are at risk of being outshined by urban and industrial ...

The Cherenkov Telescope Array just got a major boost for distributing its data, a development that will expedite scientific discovery using the observatory.

For a brief moment, it looked like asteroid 2024 YR4 had a real shot at hitting Earth in 2032. With its impact probability climbing to a record-breaking 3%, astronomers scrambled to refine its ...

WASHINGTON: New observations of a small asteroid discovered in December have led astronomers to conclude that the chances of ...

A new image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows one of the most famous and beautiful objects in the night sky.

In March the bright winter constellations of Canis Major, Canis Minor, Orion, Gemini, Taurus and Auriga fill the southern sky ...

Weather conditions are nearly perfect to witness Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Venus, Neptune, Mercury and Saturn appear together ...

This image shows the center of the Milky Way galaxy in infrared light, as seen by NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope. The image reveals the details of the galactic core, where a supermassive black hole ...