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

Last week AES Andes—a subsidiary of the AES Corporation, an American energy company—announced it had scrapped its plans for a ...

A light-polluting green hydrogen plant project that would seriously affect one of the world's most important astronomical ...

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

The Extremely Large Telescope, located in Paranal, Chile, is poised to be the largest optical telescope ever constructed.

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

AES Andes announced that it will step back from the megaproject INNA, planned to be located near the European Southern ...

This eye-catching Picture of the Week was captured from ESO’s Paranal Observatory. Home to ESO’s Very Large Telescope, the observatory sits proudly atop the 2635-metre-high Cerro Paranal in Northern ...

The night skies above the Chilean desert are the best in the world to see deep into space, but light pollution from a planned industrial project could change that, as John Bartlett reports. JOHN ...