No one wants to be that guy waxing on about how beautiful the sunset was on vacation—but what if it was a double sunset? One that seemed to wash the world in pinks and purples, turning an imposing ...

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 ...

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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 astronomer, would wake her when a comet ...

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 ...

Last week, astronomers stationed at the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) Observatory in northern Chile awoke to a rare sight: fresh snow had fallen in the world’s driest nonpolar ...

ATACAMA DESERT, Chile, Nov 1 – In Chile’s dry Atacama desert, stargazers are scanning the clear night skies to detect the existence of life on other planets and study so-called ‘dark energy,’ a ...

The closing reception of the Joint China-Chile Atacama Trench Expedition was held here on Thursday. (Photo by Victor ...

SALAR DE ATACAMA, Chile (Reuters) - Chile's Indigenous communities in the lithium-rich Atacama Desert are in talks with two of the nation's biggest miners to gain more influence over plans to increase ...

ATACAMA, Chile (Reuters) -In Chile's arid Atacama, the driest desert in the world, scientists are studying a small, resilient flower that could hold genetic clues to help crops withstand worsening ...