Outside of a handful of valleys in Antarctica, the Atacama is the driest place on Earth. The inhospitable landscape of sand, ...

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

The Atacama Desert is home to a variety of bird species ... and galaxies that adorn the night sky. On the other hand, the rainy season, from November to April, brings occasional rainfall to ...

Astronomers are sounding the alarm about the impact of a planned renewable energy plant in Chile’s Atacama desert. The area is home to some of the most-advanced observatories on Earth because of the ...

As night falls on the Atacama desert in northern Chile four giant telescopes turn their gaze towards the star-strewn heavens. The driest place on Earth is the best place to observe the universe ...

The desert’s remoteness and inhospitably thin, dry air—ideal for observing the night sky—had already ... and the U.S. converged on the Atacama Desert. HERNÁN QUINTANA, who had pored over ...

South America's answer to the Sahara, the southern part of the Atacama Desert is known as the ... wheat puree as "mine cuisine." We spend the night in a small mountain village called Agua Dulce ...

ATACAMA DESERT, Chile — At the top of a craggy path in Socaire, a hilltop village deep in Chile's Atacama Desert, a black flag whips in the wind above Jeanette Cruz's house. The desert sun has ...

Reach for the stars with our guide to the best dark-sky reserves on the planet, from the French Pyrenees to the Atacama Desert ...

What a stunning place to visit. We did not know what to expect when we booked to stay in the Atacama desert. “The scenery was stunning. Allow at least 3 night stay to acclimatise to the ...

The clarity of Chilean skies in the Atacama Desert may be in jeopardy given ... Paranal represents a critical risk to the most pristine night skies on the planet,” said ESO Director General ...

The world's largest telescope continues to take shape on the Cerro Armazones mountain in Chile's Atacama Desert ... closed during the day and open at night, allowing the telescope to survey ...