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Wispy comet photobombs 'rare' planetary parade above Chile's Atacama Desert (photos)
In February 2025, conditions were just right to catch a "planetary party" above the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) ...
In the driest place on Earth, water hides in plain sight
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 ...
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Chile's Atacama desert turns to fog harvesting – A lifeline for some of the world’s driest cities
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 ...
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Visiting Chile? This adventure is a must-try
Chile's most emblematic volcanoes can be found in the Atacama Desert. Licancabur Volcano, with its height exceeding 5,900 ...
Operation Atacama: The $1m cactus heist that led to a smuggler's downfall
After thousands of rare Chilean cacti were found in the house of an Italian collector, a years-long trial slowly unravelled ...
Fog harvesting could provide water for arid cities
Capturing water from fog - on a large scale - could provide some of the driest cities in the world with drinking water. This ...
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Scientists Discover Black Hole So Gigantic That You Will Quiver in Existential Terror
Astronomers have discovered a black hole so mind-bogglingly large, trying to get a grasp of how big it really is could induce ...
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Exoplanet with iron rain has violent winds 'like something out of science fiction'
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 ...