It's a rare treat to see so many astronomical delights in the sky at one time. The dark skies of Chile's Atacama Desert are perfect for skywatching, especially when a parade of six planets and a ...

The Canadian-built Atacama Cosmology Telescope in the high Chilean desert mountains, which has just given up its final batch ...

The sun beats down from the sky and it is exhausting ... bathes the dunes in red-golden light. A desert fox comes within a few metres of us, drawn by the smell. The Atacama is the driest place ...

At first sight, orange and off-white shards of rocks surrounded by dust and dirt are all you can see for thousands of desolate kilometres in the Atacama Desert ... like the sky has dropped closer ...

The Atacama is the world’s driest non-polar desert – a landscape so vast and ... amid an orange-streaked night sky, and over the days that follow I find that the bronze is regularly broken ...

Stretching across northern Chile and southern Peru, the Atacama is the driest non-polar ... gasp at the "contours and colours" of the desert from the sky. From our morning news briefing to a ...