In the new image, a faint band of zodiacal light reaches up from the horizon ... sun" in the native Mapudungun language of central-southern Chile. Interplanetary dust in the solar system forms ...

Image an alien planet where savage winds rip through the atmosphere carrying molten iron and titanium particles. Such a ...

CERRO PARANAL, Chile - Chile's pristine, dark desert skies, world-renowned for astronomy, are at risk of being outshined by urban and industrial development according to astronomers. Read more at ...

As night falls on the Atacama desert in northern Chile four giant telescopes turn their gaze towards the star-strewn heavens.