Astronomers urged Chile to relocate a planned hydrogen plant, saying it could raise light pollution and affect major observatories in the Atacama Desert ...

Chile’s Atacama Desert is one of the darkest spots on Earth, a crown jewel for astronomers who flock to study the origins of ...

An early grid battery was installed in the Atacama Desert in Chile 15 years ago. Now, as prices have tumbled, they are ...

Researchers studying PV panels in Chile’s hyper-arid Atacama Desert found that cemented soiling can cause annual energy losses of up to 9.8%. Their combined field and laboratory work shows that dry ...

Chile's Atacama desert is best known for its salt lagoons in the north, but head to the Mar de Dunas in the southern part and you will be rewarded with perfect wind-sculptured wave patterns as far as ...

The rain fell in the Atacama Desert in Chile for the first time in hundreds of years, and it caused a mass extinction. It might seem natural to think that such rains would be followed by blooming ...

Yet another film uses a desert backdrop for its story. This time it is the Atacama Desert of Chile and Peru that is the setting for the film The 33 starring Antonio Banderas and directed by Patricia ...

“Desert selfie” in the driest place on the planet: the Atacama Desert in northern Chile. If you want to go to Mars but can’t quite afford the hundreds of billions of dollars for a ticket, there is ...

Water may be an essential element of life, but to the scarce microbes that inhabit the Mars-like Atacama Desert in Chile, it's death. Studying the effects of once-in-a-century rainfall in the ...

As one of the driest places on Earth, Chile’s Atacama Desert is one of the last places you’d expect a trip to be ruined by rain. Dirk Schulze-Makuch happened to be so lucky. In early 2015, he was ...