Miners once lived and worked in Humberstone saltpeter works. Now it's a ghost town and UNESCO World Heritage Site. Photos ...

"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 ...

Chile's Atacama Desert is home to some of the best Earth-based observatories, though an energy company is throwing a wrench ...

Credit: ESO/Cover Image The world’s darkest skies are under threat from an industrial megaproject that could permanently ...

A mountain of discarded clothing and other rubbish in the Atacama Desert in northern Chile is now so large it can be seen ...

Instruments like the those currently on the Red Planet were used to study samples collected from an 'Mars-like' area in Chile ...

A new observatory rising in Chile adds to China's extensive Latin American space network that is boosting its goal of ...

The Pacific Ocean on one side and the Atacama Desert on the other - that's a rough description of the natural boundaries of ...

Thomas Richard Marsh, an astrophysicist at University of Warwick, was last seen a week ago near the astronomical observatory La Silla on the outskirts of the Atacama Desert where he is understood ...

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 ...

The Paranal Observatory in the Atacama Desert. Image: wikimedia commons The PV complex consists of 18,565 bifacial panels installed on trackers, distributed over 7.2 hectares of land, with a plant ...

ON A MAY MORNING two pickup trucks passed through the quiet town of San Pedro in Chile’s Atacama Desert and headed up a mountainside on a dirt road. It was 1994, and the five men inside the ...