A project expected to bring major changes to humanity's understanding of the universe, the Extremely Large Telescope with a main mirror nearly 40 meters across, is being assembled in Chile's Atacama ...

First of 3 parts Miriam Abarca is standing on a wooden platform overlooking the Cahuil Lagoon, a small, salty pine-fringed ...

The Atacama Desert is considered one of the most important astronomical ... but could include green hydrogen and ammonia production plants, solar and wind farms as well as battery storage facilities.

A “mycology thriller” imagines a hidden healing mushroom. In real life, scientists are searching far and wide to map the world’s unseen fungi.

A project backed by the Chilean government and UNEP is helping to revive the Cahuil wetland and kickstart economic growth.

It’s hard to recycle the clothing and much of it ends up in the landfill, including a giant dump in Chile’s Atacama Desert. “Fabrics that you see ... At a former dairy farm in Lancaster County, Pa., ...

Solar photovoltaic (PV) panels now cover rooftops in San Diego, California; the Atacama Desert in Chile ... designed for centralized fossil fuel plants, not decentralized renewables.

On Earth, plants and certain bacteria produce oxygen ... s eponymous Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) in the Atacama Desert of Chile, is scheduled to start operation in 2024. The light-gathering ...

Why is traveling to the desert during cacti bloom season a unique ... Iconic deserts like North America's Sonoran and South America's Atacama are world-famous for their stunning cacti blooms.

This discovery represented a crucial step in understanding how plants grow and how that growth is regulated by light. Paul Butler initiates observational exoplanet research at Carnegie using precision ...

High Desert rain this week comes just in time for spring bloom season. Here are the top places to photograph spring ...