The ALMA radio telescope array in the Atacama Desert temporarily halted operations after a rare snowfall blanketed the base ...

Last week, astronomers stationed at the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) Observatory in northern Chile ...

Residents of the world's driest desert, the Atacama in northern Chile, woke up Thursday to a jaw-dropping spectacle: its famous lunar landscape blanketed in snow. "INCREDIBLE! The Atacama Desert, the ...

Deserts provide some of the most unique and treacherous trekking experiences on the globe. These vast, barren lands are not ...

When science organizations in the United States, Europe, and Japan dreamed up a new, ultra-powerful millimeter and ...

The Atacama Desert of Chile is largely considered the driest place on Earth, but recently saw the moon-like landscape ...

Researchers have discovered why atacamite, a rare mineral found in Chile, spontaneously cools down when exposed to a magnetic ...

CHANARAL, Chile (Reuters) -In Chile's arid Atacama, the driest desert in the world, growers and researchers are looking to harness water from the very air itself to grow lettuces and lemons, using a ...

More than a decade in the making, the Vera Rubin Observatory finally released its first image as its begins its ...

Snow covered Chile's Atacama Desert, offering a rare sight of winter in a place with almost nonexistent rainfall and normally ...

Chile's Atacama Desert is about as close as you can get to Mars without hitching a ride on a rocket: salty, windswept, and so bone dry, it'd be easy to mistake it for being lifeless.. But a new ...

Located in the remote Atacama Desert in Chile, Tierra Atacama reemerges from a year-long renovation to invite visitors back ...