The extraordinary event temporarily shut down equipment at the ALMA Observatory, and the snow reached the telescope's main ...

The ALMA radio telescope array in the Atacama Desert temporarily halted operations after a rare snowfall blanketed the base ...

The Atacama Desert of Chile is largely considered the driest place on Earth, but recently saw the moon-like landscape ...

Astronomers first identified these minerals using the now-three-year-old James Webb Space Telescope. To see where exactly the ...

With the click of a laser pointer, the guide directed our attention to the night sky. Just west of the Andes Mountains and about 30 miles from the border of Bolivia, Chile’s Atacama Desert is a ...

Northern Chile’s Atacama Desert is the driest desert in the world. It’s also a traveler’s delight with rock canyons, snow-capped volcanoes, geysers and turquoise lakes.

Growing up in Chile’s Atacama Desert, Paulina Villalobos thought the Milky Way’s presence in the pristine starry skies was a given. Her father, an amateur astronomer, would wake her when a ...

In Chile's dry Atacama desert, stargazers are scanning the clear night skies to detect the existence of life on other planets and study so-called 'dark energy,' a mysterious cosmic force thought ...

CHANARAL, Chile (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, using ...

Mysterious bits of twisted glass strewn across Chile's Atacama Desert may have originated from a large comet that exploded in Earth's atmosphere around 12,000 years ago, according to a new study.

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 ...