the Atacama receives 50 times less rain than Death Valley in California. In some regions, rainfall has never been measured since records began, a peculiarity due to the location of the desert ...

Located in the Central Molecular Zone (CMZ), these filaments could be a part of a cyclical process in one of the galaxy’s ...

The research team conducted a year-long study in Alto Hospicio, a fast-growing municipality located in the Atacama Desert. Around 10,000 people live in informal settlements due to the city's rapid ...

The Atacama Desert, located along Chile’s Pacific coast, is known as one of the driest places on Earth. In some parts of the desert, weather stations have reported no measurable rain for several ...

Tierra Atacama just reopened in the Chilean high-altitude desert. Travel + Leisure was the first to stay—read our full review ...

The Atacama Desert, primarily located in Chile along the Pacific Ocean, is flush with flowers after relatively heavy precipitation in March and August fell in the drought-stricken region.

When Eduardo Unda-Sanzana arrived in Chile’s Atacama Desert to teach astronomy, the darkness was disorienting. The remote location of the small observatory at Catholic University of the North ...

The ELT is being built on top of Cerro Armazones in the Atacama Desert located in northern Chile. The roughly 10,000-foot-tall (3,000-meter) mountain is part of the Andes. When completed ...

It is situated in the middle of the arid Atacama Desert, considered one of the best places on Earth for astronomy. The telescope is located on Armazones Hill, about 3,050 meters (10,000 feet ...

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.

On the arid and seemingly sterile surface of the Atacama Desert lies an invaluable treasure of history ... which are over a thousand years old and located south of Iquique in the Tarapacá Region, ...

But it is in that very location that both authorized and illegal ... Luis Pérez Reyes The Atacama Desert receives rain only a few times a year. The intense sun and harsh conditions make plant ...