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

Outside of a handful of valleys in Antarctica, the Atacama is the driest place on Earth. The inhospitable landscape of sand, bare rock, and salt flats is so extreme and otherworldly that it’s used as ...

The Atacama Desert in Chile is considered one of the driest ... are also preparing a "fog water harvesting map" across Chile, which will show data for all locations where fog collectors could ...

Chile's most emblematic volcanoes can be found in the Atacama Desert. Licancabur Volcano, with its height exceeding 5,900 ...

Capturing water from fog - on a large scale - could provide some of the driest cities in the world with drinking water. This ...

Astronomers have discovered a black hole so mind-bogglingly large, trying to get a grasp of how big it really is could induce ...

The WASP-121 b winds, discovered by a team of astronomers using the Very Large Telescope (VLT) located in the Atacama Desert region of ... 121 b and creating a 3D map of its atmosphere ...

of green vegetables in a month Alto Hospicio is on the edge of the Atacama Desert - one of the driest places on Earth. With little to no precipitation, the main water source of cities in the ...