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

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 net to catch drops of ...

A multi-million dollar renovation of the Tierra Atacama hotel has transformed one of the driest places on earth into a high-end destination.

Snow covered Chile's Atacama Desert, offering a rare sight of winter in a place with almost nonexistent rainfall and normally ...

Chile's Atacama Desert is about as close as you can get to Mars without hitching a ride on a rocket: salty, windswept, and so bone dry, it'd be easy to mistake it for being lifeless.. But a new ...

ATACAMA DESERT, Chile — At the top of a craggy path in Socaire, a hilltop village deep in Chile's Atacama Desert, a black flag whips in the wind above Jeanette Cruz's house. The desert sun has ...

Chile’s tourism numbers rose 84 per cent from 2022 to 2023 Many are choosing the Atacama as one of their stops there Charlotte Lytton explores the world's driest non-polar desert to find out why ...

Stretching over a 1,600-kilometre-long strip of land west of the Andes Mountains, it covers an area of 105,000 km. Located in Chile's Antofagasta Region, it sees an average rainfall of just 15 mm ...

ALMA's radio telescope array is perched high on the Chajnantor Plateau — a desert plain at 16,800 feet (5,104 m) in Chile's Antofagasta region — typically sees three snowfalls a year.

ALMA's radio telescope array is perched high on the Chajnantor Plateau — a desert plain at 16,800 feet (5,104 m) in Chile's Antofagasta region — typically sees three snowfalls a year.