The ALMA radio telescope array in the Atacama Desert temporarily halted operations after a rare snowfall blanketed the base ...

The huge garment pile is growing by about 39,000 tons a year. A mountain of discarded clothes in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile has reached such huge proportions that it can be seen from ...

Now, a pile of discarded clothes, almost as big as a town, in the Atacama Desert of Chile is visible from space, and it is growing, per Space.com. In 2023, ...

Piles of clothes dumped in the desert in the La Pampa sector of Alto Hospicio can be seen on Nov. 11, 2022. AFP via Getty Images What a waste. A satellite image taken above Chile’s Atacama ...

More than a decade in the making, the Vera Rubin Observatory finally released its first image as its begins its ...

Chile’s Atacama Desert is the driest place on Earth. It receives less than 1mm of rain a year each year, but some parts of it haven’t had a drop in more than 500 years.

Space news and reference site. The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over part of Chile’s Atacama Desert, which is bound on the west by the Pacific and on the east by the Andes.

Wedged between two mountain ranges along Chile's coast, the Atacama Desert is the oldest and driest desert in the world. It has also provided scientists with a wealth of research opportunities.

In Chile's dry Atacama desert, stargazers are scanning the clear night skies to detect the existence of life on other planets and study so-called 'dark energy,' a mysterious cosmic force thought ...

The powerful device will scan the sky like never before, capturing vast amounts of data to reveal how the universe changes ...

Researchers scouring the desert for space rocks found the oldest collection of meteorites on Earth. Skip to main content. ... Chile's Atacama Desert is the driest, oldest desert on Earth.