Perched high in the foothills of Chile’s Andes mountains, a revolutionary new space telescope has just taken its first pictures of the cosmos—and they’re spectacular. Astronomers are excited about the ...

Pulsating stars. Supernova explosions. Streaking asteroids. Far-off galaxies. Humankind recently saw the first stunning images of outer space taken by the world’s largest digital camera – and Florida ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is set to release its first images from the world’s newest and most powerful survey telescope, equipped with the largest digital camera ever built, which will ...

Chile's Vera Rubin Observatory, boasting the world's largest digital camera, has discovered a mountain-sized asteroid, 2025 ...

The glowing light shows the intricate details that make this cutting-edge telescope work. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Named ...

On January 18, 2002, the National Science Foundation formally opened the Gemini South telescope in Chile. This became the ...

For Chilean astrophotographer Osvaldo Castillo, the night sky above the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Paranal Observatory held a breathtaking sight. "I couldn't believe I was photographing a ...

Every year, all telescopes on Earth and in space combined discover around 20,000 new asteroids. In just its first ten hours of activity, a single new observatory discovered 2,104 asteroids, or in ...