The Moon’s size on the horizon has puzzled humans for millennia. Despite ancient philosophers and modern scientists tackling ...

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

Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, accompanied by Reinhard Genzel, Director of the Max Planck Institute for ...

An upgrade is currently being installed at the VLT with Gravity+, which is also being developed ... In a press address, he emphasized the importance of the observatory for cooperation between Chile ...

Astronomers have discovered a record-breaking black hole moving at over 1,000 km/s, believed to have been ejected after ...

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?

Galaxies don't float around at random. They line up along strands of cosmic filaments, sometimes stretching millions of light ...

An exoplanet located around 900 light-years away from us is known for its extreme conditions. It’s so hot that it […] ...

SVOM had already detected 78 gamma-ray bursts and around ten scientific publications are in preparation. "Gamma-ray bursts ...

A new image from the James Webb Space Telescope shows a stunning and fashionable sight: the Sombrero Galaxy, named for its resemblance to the traditional Mexican hat. With its wide, flat shape ...