Armed with the world's largest digital camera, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile will take night-sky images that ...

A mystery interstellar object discovered last week is likely to be the oldest comet ever seen – possibly predating our solar system by more than three billion years, researchers say. The "water ...

Many conservationists dedicated to protecting the endangered Andean cat have never seen one in the wild, with the species ...

From Chile’s southern tip to the arctic winter landscapes of Canada ... From above, parts of the Everglades look like the map of a planet as seen from space, continents of sawgrass polkadotting an ...

Bechtol and his fellow scientists hope they can learn more about the universe than all of scientific progress has allowed in ...

Sculptor—officially labeled NGC 253—is considered a starburst galaxy, one heavy with stellar action. It's located 11 million light-years away in the Southern Hemisphere's constellation Sculptor, and ...

And astronomers have a brand-new, superpowerful eye with which to see the changing cosmos: the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in ...

On 28 November 1966, an American airplane flies over the Antarctic Peninsula just south of the southernmost tip of Chile. On ...

Researchers have recovered and sequenced Mycobacterium lepromatosis genomes from 4,000-year-old human remains in Chile, ...

A trail leading from near St. Louis, Missouri to Natchitoches, Louisiana, teaches us about a race that ruled “the new world” ...

Venezuela, despite a statistical decline in homicides, remains unstable and continues to harbor decentralized criminal actors. Chile, long considered one of the region’s safer countries, is also ...

Astronomers have created the most detailed view yet of the Sculptor Galaxy, a nearby active spiral galaxy characterized by intense star formation and intricate structures. Using the European Southern ...