When science organizations in the United States, Europe, and Japan dreamed up a new, ultra-powerful millimeter and submillimeter space observatory in the 1990s, they knew they couldn't just build it ...

Chile is a hotspot for telescopes peering up into deep space to study structures like stars, black holes, dark matter and galaxies. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

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In late June 2025, a rare weather event disrupted operations in one of the most arid regions on Earth. A snowstorm swept across northern Chile’s Atacama Desert, temporarily shutting down the Atacama ...

The Atacama Desert of Chile is largely considered the driest place on Earth, but recently saw the moon-like landscape blanketed in snow. Jared Verdi via Unsplash Nestled between the Andes Mountains ...

Chile's ALMA observatory, which houses some of the world's most powerful telescopes, has captured its most detailed images to date of the building blocks of the early universe -- primarily cold gases, ...

Fraunhofer IAF and the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy have provided 145 high-performance low-noise amplifiers for the ALMA radio telescope array in Chile’s Atacama Deser ...