Astronomers are sounding alarm bells as the world's most precious sky-observing location faces a risk of being blinded by ...

Astronomers are raising concerns about the impact of light pollution from a renewable energy project on the world’s most ...

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Chile's Atacama Desert is home to some of the best Earth-based observatories, though an energy company is throwing a wrench ...

Researchers and engineers have built a huge telescope on the Lower Rhine that will provide a view of the birth of the first ...

Astrophysicists led by a team from Trinity College Dublin have—for the first time—imaged a large number of exocomet belts ...

AES Andes, a subsidiary of the US power company AES Corporation, submitted a project for a massive industrial complex for ...

Learn what this survey recorded of exocomet belts, which imaged and identified bands of every size.

"Light pollution will irreparably impact the capabilities for astronomical observation," the ESO's Xavier Barcons said.

While most exocometary belts in the latest study are disks, some are narrow rings. Some even have multiple rings/disks that ...

Credit: ESO/Cover Image The world’s darkest skies are under threat from an industrial megaproject that could permanently ...

European countries have built some of the best telescopes in the world in Chile at a cost of several billion euros.