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 ...

Rather than using the fictional Dorothy device to measure these tornadoes from the inside, astronomers used the sensitive, ...

"As the large and bright discs are the easiest to observe, our previous view of the birth site of planets was biased." ...

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 Latin America, two of the most striking examples are the Atacama Desert and the Sonoran Desert. Spanning over 100,000 km², the Atacama stretches across Chile and parts of Argentina ...

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 ...

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 ...