Tucked away in a remote desert town, a hidden vault safeguards Chile's most precious natural treasures. From long-forgotten ...

Last week AES Andes—a subsidiary of the AES Corporation, an American energy company—announced it had scrapped its plans for a ...

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 ...

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 ...

San Pedro de Atacama Desert is one of the most extreme and visually striking landscapes on Earth, located in northern Chile.

Europe's ESO star-gazing organisation on Monday welcomed plans to call off building a massive green energy project in the Chilean desert which threatened to spoil its telescopes' view of the darkest ...

The Atacama Desert in northern Chile holds two ghost towns called Humberstone and Santa Laura. Once home to thousands, they were abandoned in the 1960s when the saltpeter industry collapsed. Today, ...

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 ...

AES Andes, the Chilean power generation unit of the U.S.-based AES Corp., has decided to abandon plans to develop the ...

SANTIAGO, Chile — A 6.4 magnitude earthquake struck northern Chile on Friday, causing minor infrastructure damage and cutting power to over 20,000 people. Authorities have not reported any casualties ...

Israeli Ground Troops in Gaza's Deir al-Balah. Chile's Festival de La Tirana. : State of the World from NPR In Gaza, one of the last relatively safe zones is now under fire, as Israel expands its ...