Although this controversy might be specific to Chile, home to 40 percent of the world’s astronomy infrastructure, the project ...

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope in Chile has released its final batch of data after 15 years — and it proves that the Hubble ...

NOIRLab, a federally-funded U.S. facility that operates a handful of large ground-based observatories in Arizona, Chile and Hawaii, made a major announcement on Monday (Nov. 27) regarding its clean ...

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A telescope in Chile has captured a stunning new picture of a grand and graceful cosmic butterfly. The National Science Foundation's NoirLab released the picture Wednesday. Related video above: The ...

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 ...

Star trails are the visible imprint of Earth's rotation. As our planet spins around its axis, the stars appear to sweep across the sky in long, circular arcs. When a camera takes repeated ...

Engineers began blasting a home for the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) on a mountaintop in Chile on Friday. Meanwhile, back in Tucson, the second of two giant mirrors being cast for the GMT is still ...

This image provided by NSF NOIRLab shows NGC 6302, a billowing planetary nebula that resembles a cosmic butterfly. (NSF NOIRLab via AP) CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A telescope in Chile has captured a ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A telescope in Chile has captured a stunning new picture of a grand and graceful cosmic butterfly. The National Science Foundation’s NoirLab released the picture Wednesday.