The effects of a proposed green-energy facility in Chile could be devastating for some of the most powerful instruments ...

Chile's Atacama desert is the driest non-polar region on Earth, where "the sky shines when the sun sets", said The Guardian.

New images of the infant universe captured by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) are the most precise "baby pictures" to ...

Using the Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI), an international team of astronomers has observed a young Herbig ...

Astronomers have confirmed the existence of four planets orbiting a star less than 6 light-years away with help from some of ...

New research by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) collaboration has produced the clearest images yet of the universe’s ...

Cosmic microwave background data support cosmology’s standard model but retain a mystery about the universe’s expansion rate.

The finest ever map of the cosmic microwave background - the faint evidence of the universe's early form - has yielded ...

The final results from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope offer the sharpest, most sensitive view of the early cosmos that ...

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) team has captured the clearest images of the universe in its earliest stages—when it ...

The clearest and most precise images yet of the universe in its infancy – the earliest cosmic time accessible to humans – ...

The research, by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) collaboration, shows both the intensity and polarization of the ...