Astronomers had warned that proximity of INNA facility to telescopes would have irreparably damaged observation ...

There are a lot of moving pieces when it comes to building the world's largest telescope.

Since the 1990s, astronomers have found a handful of other dwarf planets in the belt, such as Eris and Sedna, along with ...

Astronomers are rejoicing over the cancellation of a $10bn project in Chile's Atacama Desert, which threatened the world's clearest skies.

The international astronomical community is celebrating. The mega-project by AES Andes, a subsidiary of the U.S.-based AES ...

The green hydrogen and ammonia project would have increased light pollution at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile’s Atacama Desert ...

French scientists discovered comet C/2026 A1 Jan. 13, currently approaching the sun. Here's what to know.

Astronomers have spotted a heart in the cosmos — not Cupid's doing, but a dying star shedding its layers — just in time for Valentine's Day.

"We were very surprised to see this structure," said astrophysicist Theo Khouri of Sweden’s Chalmers University of Technology.

What if the Milky Way’s central “black hole” isn’t a black hole at all? A new model proposes that an ultra-dense dark matter core could mimic its gravitational pull.

Using HARPS and HARPS-N spectrographs, astronomers have observed a nearby K-type star designated HD 176986, known to host two ...

Scientists investigating the puzzling, long-lasting, and extreme dimming of a distant star have narrowed the suspects down to either a so-called “failed star” brown dwarf or a truly massive ...