Overall the Atacama Desert of Chile is an off-the-beaten path area filled with unique activities. While you can plan visits ...

Astronomers from India have made an intriguing discovery in a unique tri-star solar system located 489 light years from Earth ...

"There is no place on earth quite like the Atacama desert,” explains Oliver Ripley, Our Habitas Co-Founder and CEO. “It's an incredibly serene and humbling place, which is a draw for those ...

Chileans and tourists from further afield come to view the unusually colourful desert After intense and unexpected rain fell in the north of Chile, parts of the usually arid Atacama desert have ...

Construction of the world's largest telescope moves forward with progress of the dome and housing for the primary mirror.

Some 3,800 years ago a massive 9.5-magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami with waves as high as 20 metres (66 feet) slammed the coastline of Chile’s Atacama Desert, the world’s driest ...

Over a thousand years ago, the hundreds of giant geoglyphs carved into the desert in northern Chile were a bustling scene. They marked sources of water in the vast arid landscape and were where ...

Ground-based telescopes work best when the atmosphere between them and the Universe is kept to a minimum, making the ELT’s ...

The Atacama Desert, Chile. The driest non-polar desert on earth. Average annual rainfall? Under a millimetre, with some regions waiting decades between sparse showers. The temperature swings from ...

Botanist Pablo Guerrero has been visiting Atacama cacti all his life. They’re not adapting well to a drier climate, booming mining and plant collection.

The Atacama desert in Chile is one of the driest places on Earth. Today, it has been reduced to the world’s dumping yard Mountains of discarded clothes, shoes, and scrapped tires have been ...

Chinese wind energy companies continue their expansion into new markets such as Chile and Brazil. Goldwind announced the ...