Chile has announced that it is reviewing an agreement signed with China for the construction of a major astronomical ...

The effects of a proposed green-energy facility in Chile could be devastating for some of the most powerful instruments ...

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

At first sight, orange and off-white shards of rocks surrounded by dust and dirt are all you can see for thousands of desolate kilometres in the Atacama Desert of Chile. This is one of the driest ...

Chile said on Wednesday it was reviewing an agreement for the construction of a Chinese astronomical observatory on its soil, ...

Thomas Richard Marsh, an astrophysicist at University of Warwick, was last seen a week ago near the astronomical observatory La Silla on the outskirts of the Atacama Desert where he is understood ...

A yearlong assessment of the potential volume of harvested fog water near a city in northern Chile’s Atacama Desert found that it’s possible to collect as much as 5 liters per square meter ...

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 ...

Stretching across northern Chile and southern Peru, the Atacama is the driest non-polar desert on the planet. With its "Martian landscapes" and sprawling salt flats, the arid "geographical ...

Far from being barren wastelands, deserts are biologically rich habitats with a vast array of animals and plants that have adapted to the harsh conditions there. Some deserts are among the planet ...

In the north, the Atacama Desert is the driest place on Earth ... Uruguay is sandwiched between Argentina and Brazil on the Atlantic coast. Long overlooked in favour of its more glamourous ...