Chadian authorities say they have found the body of a French tourist after he went missing during a Sahara Desert festival visit.

To protect the southwest’s iconic Joshua trees, scientists are tinkering with their genetics and searching for climate havens ...

A newly discovered sungrazing comet C/2026 A1 is heading for a perilous close encounter with the Sun in April. If it survives ...

The newly discovered sungrazing comet C/2026 A1 (MAPS) will undergo an extremely close slingshot around our star in early ...

San Pedro de Atacama Desert is one of the most extreme and visually striking landscapes on Earth, located in northern Chile. Known as the driest non-polar desert in the world, it features vast red ...

Normally, the announcement of building a wind and solar farm is good news. In the case of Inna, however, the good news is that the project will not be implemented. The facility in Chile could have ...

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

China and Chile are set to launch a three‑month expedition into the uncharted depths of the eastern Pacific Ocean – a “historic opportunity” to seek new forms of life and geological insights into the ...

A new study shows that resilient and remarkably diverse populations of organisms can persist in the soil despite harsh and extremely dry conditions. An international team led by researchers from the ...

A new study shows that resilient and remarkably diverse populations of organisms can persist in the soil despite harsh and extremely dry conditions. An international team led by researchers from the ...

DESERT CENTER, Calif. (KESQ) - Four people were injured following a crash between an SUV and a big rig on Interstate 10 in Desert Center Tuesday afternoon. The crash was reported at around 5:15 p.m.

There's always a touch of melancholy when a chapter that has absorbed years of work comes to an end. In the case of the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT), those years amount to nearly 20—and now the ...