Beneath a breathtaking full Moon, construction on the world’s largest optical and infrared telescope—the ELT—progresses in ...

Astronomers have discovered the most distant and thus earliest spiral galaxy ever seen, using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). This "twin" of the Milky Way existed just 1 billion years after the ...

Two new research studies explore how a stellar nursery in the heart of the Milky Way is affected by the region’s strong ...

The proposed high-resolution telescope would be able to observe near-Earth objects, which are classified as asteroids or comets. But the project quickly became entangled in China’s spiraling ...

The Atacama Space Telescope captures a new Cosmic ... The Atacama Large Millimeter Array, located in the middle of the desert in northern Chile, has concluded 15 years of observations and released ...

International researchers made the finding using the Atacama Large Millimeter/sub-millimeter Array, a collection of dozens of radio telescopes in the Chilean desert. This astronomical project ...

The discovery was made using the world's largest radio telescope, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), consisting of 66 antennas across the Atacama Desert region of Northern Chile.

Rather than using the fictional Dorothy device to measure these tornadoes from the inside, astronomers used the sensitive, high-resolution instruments at the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter ...

The proposed high-resolution telescope would be able to observe near-Earth objects, which are classified as asteroids or comets. But the project quickly became entangled in China's spiraling ...

The proposed high-resolution telescope would be able to observe ... of other countries operate observatories in Chile’s Atacama Desert. The region's geography — bone-dry and high-altitude ...