Located in the remote Atacama Desert in Chile, Tierra Atacama reemerges from a year-long renovation to invite visitors back ...

Discover why Antarctica no longer has lush forests with giant ferns and how ancient fires fueled intense volcanic activity.

Snow covered Chile's Atacama Desert, offering a rare sight of winter in a place with almost nonexistent rainfall and normally ...

Natural crystals fascinate with their vibrant colors, their nearly flawless appearance and their manifold symmetrical forms.

The Atacama Desert in Chile is home to a massive, and growing, mountain of discarded clothes and textiles. The items are remnants of secondhand clothes imported into the country to resell. To address ...

Residents of the world's driest desert, the Atacama in northern Chile, woke up Thursday to a jaw-dropping spectacle: its ...

The earliest light in the universe has been traveling across space since just after the Big Bang. Known as the cosmic ...

The icy giant is more than 10 times the size of any known comet, according to the National Radio Astronomy Observatory.

UT-Austin just took a big step in its process of building one of the largest telescopes in the world as the Giant Magellan ...

In Chile's arid Atacama, the driest desert in the world, growers and researchers are looking to harness water from the very ...

The powerful device will scan the sky like never before, capturing vast amounts of data to reveal how the universe changes ...