With some of the world’s clearest skies, the Elqui Valley on the edge of the Atacama Desert offers an unparalleled lens into ...

Jagged rock walls line the valley at Valle de la Muerte, Atacama Desert, Chile. The narrow road contrasts with the vast ...

This genetic mothership is the central node in a nationwide network of institutions that are safeguarding the country's plant ...

The Hollywood sign gets some additional words in a mini video by Oscar nominated filmmaker Alison McAlpine, director of ...

Rock salt spread on Long Island roadways is mined in Chile before being loaded by the tons onto vessels for the roughly 4,500 ...

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Mysterious parallel microtunnels discovered in rock defy geology and could be the work of unknown microscopic ancient life.

A 2021 satellite photo shows off the recently uncovered Yilan crater in China, which is most likely the youngest impact structure on Earth. The incomplete ring is also the largest of its kind and only ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have investigated 70 dusty galaxies at the very edge of the universe that ...

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 ...

PROOF of alien life is one step closer to being found thanks to a massive earthquake-proof telescope that’s near completion ...

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