Astronomers from Texas have witnessed the moment a star's surface is torn apart by a supernova, becoming oblong in the ...

Chile’s Atacama Desert is one of the darkest spots on earth, a crown jewel for astronomers who flock from around the world to ...

The European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope has detected "a scar imprinted on the surface" of white dwarf star ...

Chilean astrophotographer Osvaldo Castillo captured this breathtaking view.

A brilliant comet lights up the night sky over Chile's Atacama Desert in this stunning image captured by a photographer with the European Southern Observatory in January 2025. For several days in ...