When Eduardo Unda-Sanzana arrived in Chile’s Atacama Desert to teach astronomy, the darkness was disorienting. The remote location of the small observatory at Catholic University of the North made it ...

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

A solar facility with an installed power of 9 MW has come online at the Paranal Observatory operated by the European Southern Observatory (ESO). The PV plant is also intended to power the world’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Leading scientists from around the world have called on the Chilean government to protect the dark skies over the Paranal ...

Europe's ESO star-gazing organization on Monday welcomed plans to call off building a massive green energy project in the ...

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

The world’s darkest observatory skies have just survived one of their biggest industrial scares. After months of mounting ...

Growing up in Chile’s Atacama Desert, Paulina Villalobos thought the Milky Way’s presence in the pristine starry skies was a given. Her father, an amateur astronomer, would wake her when a comet ...

Residents of the world's driest desert, the Atacama in northern Chile, woke up Thursday to a jaw-dropping spectacle: its famous lunar landscape blanketed in snow. "INCREDIBLE! The Atacama Desert, the ...