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

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 ...

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

Star would be the first private mission to another planet and the first in over 30 years to directly measure Venus’s clouds.

Astronomers have detected a black hole with a mass equivalent to 36 billion suns at the centre of the Cosmic Horseshoe, a ...

China's planned mission to bring rock samples to Earth from Mars would beat both NASA and the European ... the scorched surface of Chile's Atacama Desert, marking the deepest discovery of ...

the researchers examined data collected by the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer spectrograph located in the Chilean Atacama Desert, as well as observations taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.

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

The dark skies of Chile's Atacama Desert are perfect for skywatching, especially when a parade of six planets and a comet grace the night sky all at once. In February 2025, conditions were just ...