In February 2025, conditions were just right to catch a "planetary party" above the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) ...

From camel trekking and sandboarding to geodesic domes and yoga retreats, these striking desert destinations offer something ...

The Atacama is the world’s driest non-polar desert – a landscape so vast and arid that Nasa practices Mars expeditions there. So when a carpet of purple flowers began poking through the earth ...

ATACAMA DESERT, Chile — At the top of a craggy path in Socaire, a hilltop village deep in Chile's Atacama Desert, a black flag whips in the wind above Jeanette Cruz's house. The desert sun has ...

The world's largest telescope continues to take shape on the Cerro Armazones mountain in Chile's Atacama Desert. In a recent update describing the progress of the construction of the Extremely ...

or the miniscule water levels in the Atacama Desert. Since her first days as a post-doctorate at NASA, she has advocated for the utility of applying traditional ecological principles and field ...

ON A MAY MORNING two pickup trucks passed through the quiet town of San Pedro in Chile’s Atacama Desert and headed up ... by specialized telescopes such as NASA’s­ space-based Chandra X ...

The telescope's primary mirror will measure about 39.3 meters (130 feet), made up of 798 pieces. It is situated in the middle of the arid Atacama Desert, considered one of the best places on Earth for ...

Stretching across northern Chile and southern Peru, the Atacama is the driest non-polar desert on the planet ... Valle de la Lunar (Moon Valley), where Nasa's rovers are tested, El Tatio (a ...

Close up of the stairways up to the top of ESO's Extremely Large Telescope in Chile's Atacama Desert. | Credit: ESO/G. Vecchia These mirrors will allow astronomers to peer into the cosmos like ...