The extraordinary event temporarily shut down equipment at the ALMA Observatory, and the snow reached the telescope's main ...

CHANARAL, Chile (Reuters) -In Chile's arid Atacama, the driest desert in the world, growers and researchers are looking to harness water from the very air itself to grow lettuces and lemons, using a ...

The ALMA radio telescope array in the Atacama Desert temporarily halted operations after a rare snowfall blanketed the base ...

"INCREDIBLE! The Atacama Desert, the world's most arid, is COVERED IN SNOW," the ALMA observatory, situated 2,900 meters (9,500 feet) above sea level, wrote on X, alongside a video of vast expanses ...

The Atacama is famed for its pitch-black skies and lack of light pollution, and it's home to the ESO's Paranal Observatory, which was involved in taking the very first picture of an exoplanet.

A low-tech solution could help a rapidly growing city in Chile’s Atacama Desert.

Fog Harvesting: Scientists Develop New Tech That Can Turn Fog into Water For Drought-Stricken Areas The water scarcity in the barren region of Atacama Desert is so bad that citizens have no access ...

Atacama sunshine helps to pull water from thin air A device involving solar panels and a gel produces substantial amounts of water in one of the world’s driest deserts.

It’s a narrative underscored by a recent discovery—that of a well-preserved 9-million-year-old fossil of Cosmopolitodus hastalis, an ancestor of the great white shark, in the Pisco Basin of Peru.

Residents of the world's driest desert, the Atacama in northern Chile, woke up Thursday to a jaw-dropping spectacle: its famous lunar landscape blanketed in snow.

CHANARAL, Chile (Reuters) -In Chile's arid Atacama, the driest desert in the world, growers and researchers are looking to harness water from the very air itself to grow lettuces and lemons, using ...