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

Last week, astronomers stationed at the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) Observatory in northern Chile ...

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

When science organizations in the United States, Europe, and Japan dreamed up a new, ultra-powerful millimeter and ...

In Chile's arid Atacama, the driest desert in the world, growers and researchers are looking to harness water from the very ...

Wedged between two mountain ranges along Chile's coast, the Atacama Desert is the oldest and driest desert in the world. It has also provided scientists with a wealth of research opportunities.

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.

Chile's Atacama Desert, known as the driest place in the world, is also the ideal spot for some of the world's best telescopes, and can be seen here in these images.

In Chile, a writer takes a road trip through one of the world’s driest places — a landscape that preserves remnants of the dead. The Valley of Mars in the Atacama Desert, with the Andes in the ...

How to Plan the Perfect Trip to Chile's Atacama Desert. Located at the northern tip of this South American country, this stark region is like nowhere else on the planet.

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 ...

Ckunsa, an indigenous language in Chile, was declared dead 70 years ago. But groups in northern Chile are successfuly reviving the language and teaching it to a new generation.