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 light pollution created by the industrial facilities would have significant impacts on the quality of the skies above the ...

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

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

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

The area is home to the Paranal Observatory, which houses the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope, used by astronomers to search the Milky Way with "unparalleled clarity ...

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

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?

Aerial view of the platform of the Very Large Telescope (VLT), with its four optical telescopes and four movable auxiliary telescopes, at the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Paranal ...