ON A MAY MORNING two pickup trucks passed through the quiet town of San Pedro in Chile’s Atacama Desert and headed up a mountainside on a dirt road ... for observing the night sky—had already ...

I have always been fascinated by the wonders of nature, and the Atacama ... the night sky. On the other hand, the rainy season, from November to April, brings occasional rainfall to the desert.

High up on a broad dune, Gabriela Torres has set up a small table with local specialities in front of an off-road vehicle. Seafood in the desert Torres is a well-known cook in the Atacama region ...

Chile's Atacama desert is the driest non-polar region on ... Comets "burn brightly" and "flawless trails of stars" and nebulae "streak the night sky". The darkness is "so complete" that Indigenous ...