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

an astrophysicist at Universidad Andrés Bello in Chile, who led a project to capture the most detailed infrared map ever of the Milky Way galaxy. “We made so many discoveries.” The new map ...

A trio of astronomers from the University of Tokyo and Niigata University have found what they describe as "peculiar embedded icy objects" thousands of light years from Earth. Takashi Shimonishi, ...