Uncover the secrets of the Atacama Desert, a breathtaking landscape that has captivated explorers and scientists alike. This ...

Humanity’s artificial glow is swallowing the night sky. Even astronomers in this remote observatory in the South American ...

A collaborative study with the University of Cologne, recently published in Nature Communications, provides compelling ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Chile's Atacama desert is best known for its salt lagoons in the north, but head to the Mar de Dunas in the southern part and you ...

The Atacama Desert in Chile offers some of the clearest views of the universe, thanks to its dry climate, high altitude and isolation from light pollution.

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 made it ...

I wandered through the Atacama Desert in Chile and discovered landscapes that feel otherworldly. Every moment was pure magic ...

Heavy seasonal rainfall in the northern half of Chile, which caused severe flooding in May, has created something truly beautiful. The country’s Atacama Desert, the driest desert in the world, has ...

“We have many places like this in the desert,” said Jean Karla Zambrana, a co-founder of the desert dressed in clothes, a ...