For adventure seekers, the ultimate luxury these days is access to biodiversity, natural wonders, and high-end, safari-style ...

On October 14, 2025, in Totoral, Atacama, Chile, @CsarPizarro14 shared a breathtaking video showing a vigorous opening of ...

Unlike optical telescopes, ALMA observes in the millimeter/submillimeter range, between infrared and longer radio waves.

The Chilean marked geckos that call Chile’s Atacama Desert home have proved annoyingly difficult to classify. While one might ...

The Atacama desert typically receives less than 15mm of rain every year. But the area had more than 12mm of rain during ...

Chile’s Tierra Atacama lodge has reopened with a renewed focus on Atacameño culture and excursions to geysers, salt pans, and ...

T he Atacama Desert in Chile might be one of the driest places on the planet, but even this barren landscape can occasionally ...

A rare bloom in Chile’s Atacama desert has briefly transformed one of the world’s driest places into a dazzling carpet of ...

China is using the high-altitude expanse for immense solar panel farms and wind turbines and has begun work on the world’s ...

Scientists have unearthed the remains of Jurassic sea predators resembling killer whales in the world's driest desert in Chile.

UC San Diego’s reach doesn’t stop at Earth’s atmosphere. Our astronauts have walked in space, our scientists have tested ...