The Atacama’s dark skies and other qualities lured organizations to build cutting-edge instruments such as the VLT, the ELT and the southern array of the CTAO. “The darker the sky, the fainter ...

A mesh sheet hung vertically faces foggy winds head-on ... an urban region at the edge of Chile's Atacama Desert. Widely considered the driest place on Earth, the Atacama Desert receives less ...

This phenomenon, sometimes called a “desert bloom,” is filling sections of the Atacama with bright flowers. The Atacama Desert stretches along the coast of northern Chile, encompassing over ...