Chile's Atacama Desert is home to some of the best Earth-based observatories, though an energy company is throwing a wrench ...

This incredible image, taken for the European Southern Observatory (ESO) by Alberto Ghizzi Panizza is taken from Pukará de ...

On January 7, 2025, the European Commission established the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO) as a European ...

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Very Large Telescope observations of the galaxy revealed that there was likely a “sudden awakening of the massive black hole ...

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AES Andes, a subsidiary of the US power company AES Corporation, submitted a project for a massive industrial complex for ...

The array is located less than 10 km southeast of the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO’s) existing Paranal Observatory in the Atacama Desert. © CTAO The European Commission today established the ...

Collaborative work by amateur and professional astronomers has helped to resolve a long-standing misunderstanding about the composition of Jupiter's clouds. Instead of being formed of ammonia ice -- ...

New research from a team of citizen scientists challenges the old idea that Jupiter's visible clouds are formed of ammonia ...

However, wildfire seasons have been increasing in length – and severity – to the point that they are very nearly year-round, and it’s been estimated that they will continue to grow, which scientists ...

As smoke pours from the intense wildfires currently scorching Los Angeles, air quality has plummeted across the city due to ...