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

After thousands of rare Chilean cacti were found in the house of an Italian collector, a years-long trial slowly unravelled how they got there.

The cacti are now in an Atacama Desert greenhouse managed by the National ... Researchers in Australia put cameras on sea lions' backs to help them map the elusive ocean floor.

The moon, the Milky Way, Saturn, Venus, Jupiter Mars, Neptune, Uranus and comet C/2024 G3 seen above the European Southern Observatory's Paranal Observatory in Chile's Atacama Desert. . | Credit ...

Stretching across northern Chile and southern Peru, the Atacama is the driest non-polar desert on the planet. With its "Martian landscapes" and sprawling salt flats, the arid "geographical ...

This is the challenge faced by hotels built within Latin America ’s vast desert landscapes. Defined by their extreme aridity and minimal rainfall, deserts are often seen as harsh and inhospitable.

Just north of the Deschutes County Fairgrounds, the Redmond Caves, a series of five caves administered by the Bureau of Land ...