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Astronomers have taken the sharpest images ever of the most massive star in the known universe. With these new images the scientists refined just how big the star is, and in the process revised our ideas of how big stars could possibly ever get.

A strange fossil discovered in Antarctica almost a decade ago has finally been identified. Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have determined that the object is a giant, soft-shell egg, most likely laid by an ancient marine reptile.

The ZeroCabin is a small off-grid cabin made by a team in Chile with no formal architecture training. It can be delivered as a finished turnkey home to locals but is also being sold as a kit for handy types to build their own.

With an eye on clearer skies, the Chilean government has now opened what is billed as the first electric bus corridor in Latin America, which will now serve as one of the main routes in the city of Santiago's transport network.

Studying the effects of once-in-a-century rainfall in the hyperarid core of the Atacama Desert in Chile, a team of astrobiologists found that instead of causing a bloom of growth, the unexpected abundance of water killed off three quarters to seven/eighths of the microbe species present.

With industrial conversions a growing trend around the world, exposed concrete has come to carry a certain simplistic charm. Felipe Assadi Arquitectos has gone all in on the material, putting it to use in a recently finished residence nestled into the hillside on Chile’s central coast.

Astronomers have discovered what may be a "toddler" exoplanet. Orbiting a young binary star system called CS Cha about 538 light years from Earth in the constellation of Chameleon, the object may be less than two million years old and is still growing thanks to the dust disc that it inhabits.

A pledge made last year to forge millions of acres of new national parks for Chilean Patagonia has come to fruition, with President Michelle Bachelet today formalizing the handover of the largest private land donation in history.

​Construction has finally begun on the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT), with the first stone laid in a ceremony last week. Being built by the ESO on the 3,046 m (9,993 ft) high summit of Cerro Armazones in Chile, the E-ELT is set to be the world’s largest optical and infrared telescope.

An adventurous spirit landed German-born Alexander Wopper in the southern Chilean city of Valdivia 30 years ago, and it's that same spirit that emboldened him to breathe new life into the underused river that cuts right through its center.

The US Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory has given the green light to start construction of the world's largest digital camera. With a resolution of 3.2-gigapixels, the new camera is at the LSST now under construction atop Cerro Pachón in Chile.

Buried in lush Patagonian rainforest lies the Huilo Huilo Biological Reserve, home to bizarrely shaped hotels crafted from local timber. This magical getaway stands tall as a beacon of sustainable architecture in one of the world's most pristine environments.