In February 2025, conditions were just right to catch a "planetary party" above the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) ...

Deep in the Amazon, Canaima National Park in Venezuela is a green wonderland. Home to Angel Falls, the tallest uninterrupted waterfall in the world at more than 3,200 feet, it serves as a source of ...

A short stretch of Oaxaca’s scenic Pacific coast makes an easy day trip from Puerto Escondido — plan on plenty of pit stops, ...

The study focuses on fog in Alto Hospicio—a city on the edge of the Chilean Atacama Desert ... Scientists Find Huge Aquifer in Cascade Mountains Researchers conducted the study over the course ...

Scientists estimate fog nets could collect up to 10 liters of water per square meter daily during peak months.

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 ...

Dr Gamberini explained that Chile is "very special" for its sea fog, "because we have the ocean along the whole country and we have the mountains". Her team is currently working on a "fog harvesting ...

Outside of a handful of valleys in Antarctica, the Atacama is the driest place on Earth. The inhospitable landscape of sand, bare rock, and salt flats is so extreme and otherworldly that it’s used as ...

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Large reserves of white hydrogen may exist within mountain ranges, according to a new study, raising hopes this clean-burning gas can be extracted and supercharge efforts to tackle the climate crisis.

Close up of the stairways up to the top of ESO's Extremely Large Telescope in Chile's Atacama Desert. | Credit: ESO/G. Vecchia These mirrors will allow astronomers to peer into the cosmos like ...