A rare blanket of flowers has transformed Chile’s Atacama Desert, the driest in the world, and drawn tourists and scientists ...

A rare floral phenomenon has transformed Chile's Atacama Desert into a vibrant landscape, attracting tourists and scientists.

When night falls in the Atacama Desert in northern Chile, brilliant constellations shine down on the dry plains.

When Eduardo Unda-Sanzana arrived in Chile’s Atacama Desert to teach astronomy, the darkness was disorienting. The remote location of the small observatory at Catholic University of the North made it ...

Chile's Atacama desert is best known for its salt lagoons in the north, but head to the Mar de Dunas in the southern part and you will be rewarded with perfect wind-sculptured wave patterns as far as ...

A Chilean astronomer has become dedicated to battling light pollution in the Atacama Desert and preserve what is considered ...

Fly over the surreal landscapes of the Atacama Desert, Chile, with this stunning 4K aerial video. Known as the driest non-polar desert on Earth, the Atacama offers a dramatic canvas of wind-sculpted ...

This article originally appeared on Undark. Growing up in Chile’s Atacama Desert, Paulina Villalobos thought the Milky Way’s presence in the pristine starry skies was a given. Her father, an amateur ...

Nestled between the Andes Mountains and the Pacific Ocean, the Atacama Desert has earned the title of the driest place on Earth. The desert only sees rain a few times per century, or in some reaches ...

ATACAMA DESERT, Chile — In the middle of the desert in northern Chile, massive pools of Caribbean blue water sit next to what appear to be snowdrifts. But this is a lithium mine. The pools are filled ...