Last year, astronomers announced that a planet orbits Barnard’s star. Now, researchers have confirmed the existence of three more.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

New insights from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope offer unprecedented images of the universe at 380,000 years old, revealing ...

Newsweek previously reported China's involvement in an observatory in South America that researchers said could be used to ...

Europe's ESO astrophysics agency said Monday that a giant green energy project billed for Chile's Atacama desert—home to the ...