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 ...

"It feels like something out of science fiction," said European Southern Observatory astrophysicist Julia Victoria Seidel.

The potential risk of Asteroid 2024 YR4 impacting Earth in 2032 dropped to nearly zero following new observations that helped better predict the asteroid's trajectory.

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?

New observations of 2024 YR4 conducted with the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) and facilities around the world have all but ruled out an impact of the asteroid with ...

A team of astronomers has uncovered the fastest planetary jetstream ever recorded, ripping across the equator of the giant ...