One person is dead and five people remain trapped after a mine collapsed in Chile. The mine collapsed after the U.S.

Exploring exotic deserts is a whole another adventure for those who want to experience the vastness and beauty of the arid ...

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

If soaking in healing hot springs and slathering mud on your back sounds like your idea of a good time, head to this ...

The Atacama desert is located in the north of Chile. It stretches over a 1,600-kilometer-long strip of land west of the Andes Mountains.

An image captured by NASA’s Terra satellite is giving us a new and stunning look at how a rare snowfall cloaked the Atacama ...

By 2007, the 25,000 residents of a Chilean mining town had moved out of their homes due to concerns about pollution levels from one of the largest copper mines in the world. Today, the ghost town of ...

Located along the northern coast of Chile in the Atacama Desert, Arica receives an average annual rainfall of only 0.76 millimeters (0.03 inches). In some years, the city may go without any ...

Flamingos feed in Laguna Chaxa, a salt-rich lagoon in Chile’s Atacama Desert. It’s a location that flamingos have adapted to live in over millennia. But each year, is still a struggle ...

An international research team studied the solar PV impact of emissions from a coal-fired power plant in the Atacama Desert, finding that after five months of exposure, the deposited dust on co ...