The project, which has already got underway, has the potential to open up Chile and turn it into a leader of the region.

The ideal time to see the cacti bloom in deserts is usually from late March to early May. This timeframe can shift a bit ...

Chile is home to SOME of the world’s best skies — and some of ... the entire dizzying process smooth and nearly silent. In the Atacama Desert, we visited local schools in San Pedro and Toconao ...

The scientific community is warning about a 3,000-hectare power plant that is jeopardizing the darkness of the skies over the ...

One study has found that Paranal, located in Chile’s Atacama Desert, has the darkest skies ... the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), to be the world’s largest optical instrument.

As the weather turns chilly in much of the northern hemisphere, it’s time to start thinking about a sun-splashed California desert ... world’s best oasis vacation might be San Pedro de Atacama ...

A “mycology thriller” imagines a hidden healing mushroom. In real life, scientists are searching far and wide to map the world’s unseen fungi.

Carnegie scientists discover the world's oldest diamonds, the inclusions in which function as time capsules that record ancient movements of continents and the origins of plate tectonics. Andrew Fire ...