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, ...

HUMBERSTONE, Chile -- Atacama is a fearsome, ugly desert in northern Chile, a vast territory devoid even of weeds and scattered with hundreds of ghost towns. Ancient, abandoned smokestacks are almost ...

The town of Ensenada in southern Chile has been described as a “ghost town” Friday after two unexpected and massive eruptions from the Calbuco volcano spectacularly sent clouds of ash and smoke some ...

A mysterious ghost frog that hadn’t been seen in 80 years has resurfaced in the Chilean Atacama Desert. Scientists found the diminutive Hall’s water frog, named for the American researcher and ...

SANTIAGO (Reuters) - A conservative billionaire has a paper-thin lead heading into Chile's presidential election on Sunday as he bids to end 20 years of center-left rule, but is wrestling with the ...

Chilean scientists have rediscovered a species of frog last seen more than 80 years ago, prompting new calls for the conservation of its habitat in the far-flung Chilean desert. Scientists relocated ...

This glowing space bubble might look like something from Star Trek, but it's actually the remnants of a dying star, also known as a planetary nebula. Officially called ESO 378-1, it's nicknamed the ...