"This very arid soil houses a treasure," ecologist María Fernanda Pérez told Live Science after the Atacama Desert produced a rare winter bloom. When you purchase through links on our site ...

The dark skies of Chile's Atacama Desert are perfect for skywatching ... Paranal Observatory. In new photos of this planet parade, the wispy glow of our own Milky Way galaxy is accompanied ...

A 6.4 magnitude earthquake has struck northern Chile, causing minor infrastructure damage and cutting power to over 20,000 people.

Chile’s Atacama Desert is the driest place on Earth ... High-resolution satellite images, captured by the photo app, Skyfi, reveal the horrifying extent of the dumpsite. They found the ...

Piles of clothes dumped in the desert in the La Pampa sector of Alto Hospicio can be seen on Nov. 11, 2022. AFP via Getty Images What a waste. A satellite image taken above Chile’s Atacama ...

[Photos: The Haunting Splendor of Chile's Atacama Desert ] Now, Reich and an international group of collaborators think they've finally solved the mystery, thanks to painstaking chemical analysis ...

The Atacama Desert Foundation said damage to Alto Barranco geoglyphs they captured is from motor vehicles. (all images courtesy Fundación Desierto de Atacama) Success! Your account was created ...

Sometimes poster-size photos of the dead were mounted outside ... Anthony Cotsifas San Pedro de Atacama, the desert’s tourist hub, is an isolated hot spot of human hustle.

ESO released two images of an equirectangular projection ... Southern Observatory's Paranal Observatory in Chile's Atacama Desert in February 2025. | Credit: B.Haeussler/ESO In addition to the ...