The Canadian miner’s reinvention as a critical-metals player—via its massive copper mine in Chile’s Andean foothills— could ...

The Atacama Desert in Chile is widely recognised as the driest nonpolar desert in the world ...

Most Atacama tourists are drawn to the north of the desert, to San Pedro de Atacama ... the Andes in the east and the South American ocean coast in the west and is only 160 kilometres wide ...

Thousands of foreign travellers visit the geysers, salt flats, oases and volcanoes of north Chile's Atacama Desert. It is located on the Pacific coast of South America, in the north of the country.

The cacti are now in an Atacama Desert greenhouse managed by the National ... cameras on sea lions' backs to help them map the elusive ocean floor. Scientists are preparing to drill into the ...

Some 3,800 years ago a massive 9.5-magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami with waves as high as 20 metres (66 feet) slammed the coastline of Chile’s Atacama Desert, the world’s driest ...

Thomas Richard Marsh, an astrophysicist at University of Warwick, was last seen a week ago near the astronomical observatory La Silla on the outskirts of the Atacama Desert where he is understood ...

The Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope is now ready to be assembled at its destination in the Atacama Desert. Planned to take up operations in April 2026, it will be able to look all the way back to ...