The scientific community is warning about a 3,000-hectare power plant that is jeopardizing the darkness of the skies over the ...

The long-closed, 1920s-era observatory in Lake Angelus is important to astronomy buffs. But its private ownership has ...

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

The telescope will catalogue billions of new objects and produce a new map of the entire night sky every three days with the ...

That camera, called LSSTCam (the telescope was originally called the Large Scale Synoptic Telescope), has 21 times the field ...

Light pollution from a planned renewable energy project in Chile could significantly impact the European Southern Observatory ...

Astronomers have been battling threats to their clear skies on all fronts lately. One of the most notable battles, which we ...

The journey of astronomical telescopes began in the early 17th century when Galileo Galilei crafted his first refracting ...

European Southern Observatory Director General Xavier Barcons told Space.com that astronomers expect the project to brighten ...

Astronomers sound the alarm as a proposed renewable hydrogen project in Chile threatens to disrupt the pristine night skies ...

The instrument is the Prime Focus Spectrograph, and it is one of the flagship instruments in the next era of the Subaru ...

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