Anthony Cotsifas San Pedro de Atacama, the desert’s tourist hub, is an isolated hot spot of human hustle. Every evening I was there, a wind kicked up before sunset and dropped off as soon as ...

ESO's observatories in Chile's Atacama Desert operate under extremely dark ... away from the sun just after sunset, from the ...

This story is part of the June 3 Edition of Good Weekend.See all 20 stories. WHY: In one of the driest places on earth, the chance to watch these iconic birds feed at sunset is a new kind of ...

A newly released image shows a colorful haze glowing above the Paranal Observatory in the Chilean Atacama Desert at sunset. The European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT ...

Traveling to the Atacama Desert feels like stepping onto a different planet. There’s a reason for that — the soil here is similar to that on Mars. It’s the driest desert in the world and ...

Chile's Atacama Desert is a barren landscape that has become a graveyard for the world's garbage, and the mountains of clothes, cars and shoes could hinder scientific advances in space.

This megaproject, which was proposed in December by U.S. power company AES Corporation's AES Andes subsidiary, may be built in Chile's Atacama Desert. The Atacama is famed for its pitch-black ...

ATACAMA DESERT, Chile — At the top of a craggy path in Socaire, a hilltop village deep in Chile's Atacama Desert, a black flag whips in the wind above Jeanette Cruz's house. The desert sun has ...

"This very arid soil houses a treasure," ecologist María Fernanda Pérez told Live Science after the Atacama Desert produced a rare winter bloom. When you purchase through links on our site ...