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

Desert stargazing offers a chance to some of the clearest night skies on Earth. With little light pollution and vast expanses ...

The construction of the world’s largest visible- and infrared-light telescope is making significant strides in the remote ...

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 ...

The research team conducted a year-long study in Alto Hospicio, a fast-growing municipality located in the Atacama Desert.

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 ...

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 hotel’s location a few minutes away from the center ... a 28-room lodge in northern Chile’s Atacama Desert. The property just received a year-long, $20-million refresh, which revamped ...

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 ...