At the start of the year, the European Commission established the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO) as a European ...

The potential risk of Asteroid 2024 YR4 impacting Earth in 2032 dropped to nearly zero following new observations that helped ...

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?

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For centuries, cameras and telescopes have relied on curved glass or plastic lenses to bend light and bring images into focus ...

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

The planet WASP-121b is extreme. It's a gas giant almost twice as big as Jupiter orbiting extremely close to its star–50 ...

The Archenhold Observatory's refracting telescope is a full 21 meters long. Looking through the powerful refractor opens up ...

ESO Observations Help Almost Fully Rule out 2024 YR4 Asteroid Impact Feb. 25, 2025 — New observations of 2024 YR4 conducted with the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO's ...

As ground-based gamma-ray telescopes increase in complexity, managing their operations demands extensive coordination across ...

Engineers developed a groundbreaking flat lens that helps telescopes to capture color while detecting light from far away ...