Chile’s Atacama Desert is one of the darkest spots on Earth, a crown jewel for astronomers who flock to study the origins of ...

The night sky as seen from the Alto Atacama Desert Lodge & Spa (Photo: Alto Atacama Desert Lodge & Spa) With the click of a laser pointer, the guide directed our attention to the night sky. His job ...

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 ...

From Atacama to Patagonia, Chile makes extremes easy with dark-sky nights, glacier days and coastal dinners.

ATACAMA, Chile (Reuters) -In Chile's arid Atacama, the driest desert in the world, scientists are studying a small, resilient flower that could hold genetic clues to help crops withstand worsening ...

An early grid battery was installed in the Atacama Desert in Chile 15 years ago. Now, as prices have tumbled, they are ...

ATACAMA DESERT, Chile — In the middle of the desert in northern Chile, massive pools of Caribbean blue water sit next to what appear to be snowdrifts. But this is a lithium mine. The pools are filled ...

Heavy seasonal rainfall in the northern half of Chile, which caused severe flooding in May, has created something truly beautiful. The country’s Atacama Desert, the driest desert in the world, has ...

In Chile’s Atacama Desert, archaeologists have discovered some of the world’s oldest naturally preserved mummies—older even ...

More than 2 million years ago, scores of whales congregating off the Pacific Coast of South America mysteriously met their end. Maybe they became disoriented and beached themselves. Maybe they were ...