One of the darkest slices of night sky on the planet may soon be threatened by the construction of an enormous industrial complex. This megaproject, which was proposed in December by U.S. power ...

This eye-catching Picture of the Week was captured from ESO’s Paranal Observatory. Home to ESO’s Very Large Telescope, the observatory sits proudly atop the 2635-metre-high Cerro Paranal in Northern ...

The night skies above the Chilean desert are the best in the world to see deep into space, but light pollution from a planned industrial project could change that, as John Bartlett reports. JOHN ...

The presidents of Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru met today at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in the Atacama Desert of Chile, seeing first-hand the state-of-the-art telescopes and technology of ESO’s ...

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When ESA wanted to test concepts for future Mars roving vehicles they needed a landscape as similar to the surface of Mars as possible. The Atacama Desert at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in northern ...

Oct. 2 (UPI) --The Paranal Observatory, one of the world's most important for astronomers, faces a major risk of providing clear images because of a proposed green hydrogen and ammonia plant planned ...

On tonight’s Explorer on National Geographic Channel, the episode focuses on several aspects of the space race as host Phil Keoghan heads to the driest place on earth, the Paranal Observatory located ...