I have been writing about the Giant Magellan Telescope for a long time. Nearly two decades ago, for example, I wrote that ...

In Chile’s Atacama Desert, scientists are building the Extremely Large Telescope, the biggest optical telescope ever ...

A US energy company has canceled construction of a hydrogen production plant in Chile. Astronomers feared interference with ...

That would make it thousands of times more massive than any moon orbiting a solar system plane  — so massive it could make ...

At Armagh Observatory, Italian-born astronomer Dr. Stefano Bagnulo shares his lifelong passion for astronomy, his ...

"The surprise that a supposedly quiet, discless system could drive such a spectacular nebula was one of those rare 'wow' moments." ...

AES Andes – the Chile-based arm of US powerhouse AES Corporation – has shocked the industry by pulling the plug on its ambitious US$10 billion INNA green hy ...

A new study reveals a rare-breaking white dwarf star, dubbed RXJ0528+2838, that is somehow generating a rainbow-like "bow shock" as it zooms through the Milky Way. The cosmic zombie is also ripping ...

Scientists observing the red giant star R Doradus have found that starlight isn’t strong enough to drive its stellar winds, ...

Astronomers have discovered that black holes don’t just consume matter — they manage it, choosing whether to blast it into space as high-speed jets or sweep it away in vast winds ...

In the shockwave, a red hue represented hydrogen, green represented nitrogen, and blue represented oxygen residing in ...

So far, humanity has yet to find its first "exomoon"—a moon orbiting a planet outside of the solar system. But that hasn't been for lack of trying. According to a new paper by Thomas Winterhalder of ...