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Miners once lived and worked in Humberstone saltpeter works. Now it's a ghost town and UNESCO World Heritage Site. Photos ...

Credit: ESO/Cover Image The world’s darkest skies are under threat from an industrial megaproject that could permanently ...

Astrophysicists led by a team from Trinity College Dublin have—for the first time—imaged a large number of exocomet belts ...

Industrial farming in Brazil and off-road racing in Chile continue to threaten geoglyphs that are so big, they can only be ...

Chile's Atacama Desert is home to some of the best Earth-based observatories, though an energy company is throwing a wrench ...

AES Andes, a subsidiary of the US power company AES Corporation, submitted a project for a massive industrial complex for ...

"Light pollution will irreparably impact the capabilities for astronomical observation," the ESO's Xavier Barcons said.

While most exocometary belts in the latest study are disks, some are narrow rings. Some even have multiple rings/disks that are eccentric, which provides evidence that yet undetectable planets are ...

The clarity of Chilean skies in the Atacama Desert may be in jeopardy given a project entertained by the electricity company ...

The Pacific Ocean on one side and the Atacama Desert on the other - that's a rough description of the natural boundaries of ...

A new observatory rising in Chile adds to China's extensive Latin American space network that is boosting its goal of ...