The world's darkest and clearest skies exist over the Atacama desert in Chile. The astronomical community, led by the European Southern Observatory, has built a number of highly advanced ...

Set against the backdrop of northern Chile’s most violent anti-immigration protest, “Unwelcomed” journeys through the majestic Andean Highlands, Atacama Desert, and coastal settlements to ...

make it the Geminids — and perhaps travel somewhere relatively warm and famously dark to watch it from, such as the San Pedro de Atacama in Chile’s Atacama desert or Namibia, to name but a few.

Inset: A satellite photo captured on March 16 by the European Space Agency's Sentinel-2 satellites shows the construction site of Ventarrones Astronomical Park in Chile's Atacama Desert ...

Production at Escondida, the world's largest copper mine, located in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile, jumped by 16% year over year. The miner's third-quarter production of steel ingredient ...

Power in the Desert, directed by Argentinian filmmaker Emiliano Rodriguez Nuesch— founder of the content production studio Pacífico — traces the ripple effects of the lithium boom across three ...

"What makes Zhúlóng stand out is just how much it resembles the Milky Way in shape, size, and stellar mass." Astronomers have discovered the most distant and thus earliest spiral galaxy ever ...

BHP Thursday reported a 10% rise in third-quarter copper output, driven by increased volumes from the giant Escondida mine in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile. Production at Escondida--the ...