Ever seen a giant hand sticking out of the desert like it lost a game of hide-and-seek with the planet? ✋🌵 Welcome to the Atacama Desert, where things get weirder than your dreams after midnight ...

The geoglyphs in this 200 million-year-old desert have baffled scientists who are scratching their heads about where they've ...

CERRO ARMAZONES, Chile (Reuters) - Dozens of boxes holding mirrors are placed along a remote desert hill in northern Chile as workers make progress in the construction of the Extremely Large Telescope ...

Astronomy isn’t just about distant stars; it’s also about the human effort here on Earth that makes it possible to extend our ...

A Chilean astronomer has become dedicated to battling light pollution in the Atacama Desert and preserve what is considered ...

Aug. 18 (UPI) --The desert bloom phenomenon is expected to return in the third week of September in Chile's Llanos de Challe National Park and surrounding areas, reaching its peak in October after ...

CHANARAL, Chile, June 24 (Reuters) - In Chile's arid Atacama, the driest desert in the world, growers and researchers are looking to harness water from the very air itself to grow lettuces and lemons, ...

It makes it easier to drive an extremely heavy radio dish when you can do it remotely. To peer deep into space, observatories like the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) use radio ...