The stunning comet C/2024 G3 lights up the sunset sky over Chile's Very Large Telescope in this spectacular photo.

Stretching across northern Chile and southern Peru, the Atacama is the driest ... a hot-air balloon ride at sunset to gasp at the "contours and colours" of the desert from the sky.

The VLT, located in Chile’s Atacama Desert, uses the light emitted by the excited atoms to correct for the effect that our atmosphere has on starlight as it passes through. ESO described the ...

Thousands of foreign travellers visit the geysers, salt flats, oases and volcanoes of north Chile's Atacama Desert. It is located on the Pacific coast of South America, in the north of the country.

A green energy plant expected to be built in Chile's Atacama Desert could increase night-time sky brightness at one of the world's most valuable astronomical locations by up to 35%, a new study ...