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

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

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. "INCREDIBLE! The Atacama Desert, the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Chile's Atacama Desert is being threatened by piles of trash dumped there from around the world, which is also damaging scientific research. This area is key to helping find life on other planets.

Fuschia Cistanthe grandiflora flowers, shown on the left and right, were among the first flowers to pop up thanks to a rare desert bloom in the Atacama. The purple flowers (center) bloomed later.

Much of the success of the observatory comes as a result of the clear, dark skies of the Atacama. The desert's arid climate and high altitude ensure clear skies for over 300 nights a year, ...

Effects of trade and poaching pressure on extinction risk for cacti in the Atacama Desert. Conservation Biology. Vol. 38, October 2024, e14353. doi: 10.1111/cobi.14353. B. Goettsch et al.