Learn more about the snowfall that shut down ALMA in the Atacama desert, and how researchers worry this could be a sign of ...

When snow shut down one of Earth’s most advanced telescopes high in Chile’s Atacama Desert, the surprise was not just that ...

Chile's Atacama desert is best known for its salt lagoons in the north, but head to the Mar de Dunas in the southern part and you will be rewarded with perfect wind-sculptured wave patterns as far as ...

As the oldest and driest desert on Earth, Chile's Atacama Desert is a treasure trove of discoveries for scientists and tourists alike.

When Eduardo Unda-Sanzana arrived in Chile’s Atacama Desert to teach astronomy, the darkness was disorienting. The remote location of the small observatory at Catholic University of the North made it ...

2004-02-01 04:00:00 PDT San Pedro de Atacama, Chile-- If I wanted to enter the crystal canyon, I was going to have to jump off the edge of a 300-foot-high dune. Jorge, our guide, threw himself down ...

Yet another film uses a desert backdrop for its story. This time it is the Atacama Desert of Chile and Peru that is the setting for the film The 33 starring Antonio Banderas and directed by Patricia ...

Chile’s Codelco and SQM seal landmark deal to boost lithium extraction in Chile's Atacama Desert, giving the government ...

Chile’s Codelco and SQM completed a landmark deal aimed at boosting lithium extraction from the country’s Atacama Desert, ...

Water may be an essential element of life, but to the scarce microbes that inhabit the Mars-like Atacama Desert in Chile, it's death. Studying the effects of once-in-a-century rainfall in the ...