It looks like any other volcano during the daytime. The Atacama Desert in northern Chile is one of the driest and most desolate places on Earth. Spanning over 40,000 square miles (103,000 square ...

My shrew was evidently not startled by my camera, but kept foraging for food among the ground cover. Some people think that desert wildlife is all snakes, lizards and coyotes, but it is much more full ...

Meanwhile, deep in Chile's Atacama Desert, construction advances on an Extremely Large Telescope ... A different blend of heritage and novelty emerges in Taipei, where a unique café aims to alter ...

Wednesday marked the start of the Year of the Snake, one of 12 animals in the Chinese zodiac. Throngs of people in down jackets filled a Beijing park for a “temple fair” on a sunny but chilly day.

These elements complement and conflict with each other. The year 2025 belongs to the Wood Snake. If you were born in the Year of the Snake, here’s everything you need to know and more ...

A project expected to bring major changes to humanity's understanding of the universe, the Extremely Large Telescope with a main mirror nearly 40 meters across, is being assembled in Chile's Atacama ...

On Wednesday, the first new moon of the Year of the Snake will mark the imminent arrival of spring. Known as Seollal in South Korea and Tet in Vietnam, the beginning of the lunisolar year is the ...

It is situated in the middle of the arid Atacama Desert, considered one of the best places on Earth for astronomy. The telescope is located on Armazones Hill, about 3,050 meters (10,000 feet ...

The telescope, currently about 60% complete, is intended to search for evidence of potential life on planets beyond our solar system - called exoplanets - and peer back in time to look for the ...

The telescope’s primary mirror will measure about 39.3 meters (130 feet), made up of 798 pieces. It is situated in the middle of the arid Atacama Desert, considered one of the best places on Earth for ...