Outside of a handful of valleys in Antarctica, the Atacama is the driest place on Earth. The inhospitable landscape of sand, ...

Astronomers say they've discovered one of the most masssive black holes ever discovered in the Cosmic Horseshoe.

Scientists estimate fog nets could collect up to 10 liters of water per square meter daily during peak months.

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 ...

The potential risk of Asteroid 2024 YR4 impacting Earth in 2032 dropped to nearly zero following new observations that helped ...

"It feels like something out of science fiction," said European Southern Observatory astrophysicist Julia Victoria Seidel.

Chile’s president has declared a state of emergency after an electricity blackout plunged most of the country into darkness ...

Dark matter is an elusive type of matter that does not emit, absorb or reflect light and is thus impossible to detect using ...

With its clear, dark skies, northern Chile is home to two fifths of the world's astronomical infrastructure, but could that be under threat with increasing urbanisation and mining development?

Chile’s national disaster response service, Senapred, reported only that a “disruption in the supply of electricity” had ...

Despite desert-like conditions, great wines are coming from pockets of limestone along Chile’s northern Pacific Coast. The ...

Cooperation, respect and strategic interdependence have long characterized the US-Canada relationship. Now, in a matter of ...