A striking new image from the Gemini North telescope captures the changing face of the night sky, where stars mingle ever ...

The new spectrograph on Chile's SOAR telescope captures Eta Carinae with unprecedented precision, revealing the secrets of ...

The early Universe still holds many mysteries, and the James Webb Space Telescope may have made a discovery that would ...

Unlike optical telescopes, ALMA observes in the millimeter/submillimeter range, between infrared and longer radio waves.

SANTIAGO, Chile — China struck a defiant stance on Tuesday in response to American concerns about Beijing's efforts to expand its influence in the resource-rich South American nation of Chile, ...

A new state-of-the-art telescope has snapped its first impressive images of the southern sky over the Paranal Observatory in Chile. The VLT Survey Telescope (VST) is the latest addition to the ...

It's a delicate process in which science meets craftsmanship in the Chilean desert.

A “cosmic treasure chest” has been opened with the debut of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in northern Chile as astronomers released startling first images, including one of a southern region of the ...

The data suggest that the black hole launched powerful outflows months after the star’s destruction, showing that black holes ...

China called on Chile to approve the construction of a Chinese observatory in the country’s north and overcome US “interference” to block the project. China’s ambassador to the South American nation, ...

The Calypso telescope, once the only privately owned telescope atop Kitt Peak, will begin its journey to its new home on Chile’s Cerro Pachón mountain soon. There, it will be used as a calibration ...