Scientists Develop First-Ever 3D Map of an Exoplanet's Atmosphere. 1mo. ... (VLT) in Chile's Atacama Desert. With its oversized mirrors, dual spectrographs, and infrared instruments, ...

The Atacama Desert spans more than 40,000 square miles, so travelers have plenty of options when it comes to accommodations. “There are about 400 places, from camping [sites] to Airbnbs to high ...

Tucked away on the Pacific coast of South America, the Atacama Desert, stretching over 1,600 kilometers in northern Chile, is a natural wonder like no other. Its barren, otherworldly landscape ...

San Pedro de Atacama, the desert’s tourist hub, is an isolated hot spot of human hustle. Every evening I was there, a wind kicked up before sunset and dropped off as soon as darkness fell.

The Atacama is the world’s driest non-polar desert – a landscape so vast and arid that Nasa practices Mars expeditions there. So when a carpet of purple flowers began poking through the earth ...