The project between a Chinese state astronomical institute and a private Chilean university in Chile's ... Park in Chile's Atacama Desert, 55 miles from the port city of Antofagasta.

In the main square of Peine, a village of low houses and dirt streets in Chile ... the Atacama Desert is a “geological photograph.” Mining companies first flocked to the region in the ...

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 of Chile. This is one of the driest ...

After thousands of rare Chilean cacti were found in the house of an Italian collector, a years-long trial slowly unravelled how they got there – and is setting a precedent for dealing with ...

AS night falls on the Atacama desert in northern Chile, four giant telescopes turn ... dozens of kilometres from the nearest town of Antofagasta, Paranal’s unique atmospheric conditions make ...

ATACAMA DESERT, Chile — At the top of a craggy path in ... salts are driven in great convoys of trucks to the city of Antofagasta on the coast, where they are purified and exported to be made ...

We still have much to learn about Chile’s superbloom ... de Iquique cactus species in Atacama. The other two will lie in the Coquimbo region, just south of the desert, where they’ll also ...

This megaproject, which was proposed in December by U.S. power company AES Corporation's AES Andes subsidiary, may be built in Chile's Atacama Desert ... pollution to the region and limit the ...

See All Key Ideas You could be forgiven for thinking there’s no water in the Atacama Desert ... at the University of Chile to look at satellite images of the region dating back to 2019.

The Atacama Desert in Chile is a wonder in itself ... is one of nearly 5,000 that have been discovered in the Atacama region in the last three decades. This artwork, presumed to be from the ...

Between Arica and Antofagasta, two cities separated by approximately 435 miles, thousands of geoglyphs can be found, and even more lie deeper into the desert. Giant of Tarapaca. Large petroglyph in ...

Tracks from both authorized and illegal off-road racing have marred 3,000-year-old figures of animals, humans and objects on the desert slopes of Alto Barranco in the Tarapacá region of Chile.