The European Southern Observatory (ESO) has released a stunning 80 million-pixel image of the star cluster RCW 38, as ...

The Atacama is the world’s driest non-polar desert – a landscape so vast and arid that Nasa practices Mars expeditions there. So when a carpet of purple flowers began poking through the earth ...

While astronomers often set their sights on the stars, the landscapes surrounding their observatories can be just as ...

"There is no place on earth quite like the Atacama desert,” explains Oliver Ripley, Our Habitas Co-Founder and CEO. “It's an incredibly serene and humbling place, which is a draw for those ...

To help lure and orientate tourists to the desert region of Atacama, a visitor centre by Emilio Marín and Juan Carlos López ... The architects describe the project in terms of the relationship between ...

Researchers in Spain have investigated how climate change may possibly impact solar power generation in the world’s region with the highest solar radiation levels – the Atacama desert in ...

the Atacama Desert features sand dunes and low, coastal mountains of dry rock that descend into salt flats. It is also the driest place on the planet. In this harsh landscape, only the most ...

Work Progresses on Giant Telescope in Chile's Atacama Desert By Rodrigo Gutierrez CERRO ARMAZONES, Chile (Reuters) - Dozens of boxes holding mirrors are placed along a remote desert hill in ...

Some 3,800 years ago a massive 9.5-magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami with waves as high as 20 metres (66 feet) slammed the coastline of Chile’s Atacama Desert, the world’s driest ...