Construction of the world's largest telescope moves forward with progress of the dome and housing for the primary mirror.

South America's answer to the Sahara, the southern part of the Atacama Desert ... made by the desert tribes. Spanish colonial rulers paid less attention to the desert, but Chile, Peru and Bolivia ...

Ground-based telescopes work best when the atmosphere between them and the Universe is kept to a minimum, making the ELT’s ...

Astronomers from India have made an intriguing discovery in a unique tri-star solar system located 489 light years from Earth ...

The world's largest telescope by far is being built in the Chilean desert. New aerial photos show how the instrument ...

The Atacama Desert in Chile, known as the driest place on Earth, experiences a rare phenomenon called the Atacama Desert Bloom. Despite minimal rainfall, the desert thrives on camanchaca ...

Pablo Guerrero has been visiting cacti in the Atacama Desert his whole life ... now a botanist at the Universidad de Concepción in Chile. Cacti in the Atacama are particularly vulnerable to ...

The Atacama Desert, which runs along the Pacific Coast in Chile, is the driest place on the planet and, largely because of that aridity, hostile to most living things. Not everything, though ...

is a £775million telescope built in Chile’s Atacama Desert – one of the driest places on Earth. The telescope built by 16 nations in the European Southern Observatory (ETO) will produce ...