Discover why Antarctica no longer has lush forests with giant ferns and how ancient fires fueled intense volcanic activity.

Snow covered Atacama desert in Chile, offering a rare sight of winter in a place where rainfall is nonexistent and skies are normally clear.

Natural crystals fascinate with their vibrant colors, their nearly flawless appearance and their manifold symmetrical forms.

The Atacama Desert in Chile is home to a massive, and growing, mountain of discarded clothes and textiles. The items are remnants of secondhand clothes imported into the country to resell. To address ...

Chile's Vera C. Rubin Observatory, which boasts the world's largest digital camera, has begun displaying its first images of ...

Residents of the world's driest desert, the Atacama in northern Chile, woke up Thursday to a jaw-dropping spectacle: its ...

Zooming in on 78 disks in the Ophiuchus star-forming region, scientists saw hitherto undiscovered structures around young ...

From the surreal landscapes of the Atacama Desert to the breathtaking views of the Osorno Volcano, Chile is a land of ...

The earliest light in the universe has been traveling across space since just after the Big Bang. Known as the cosmic ...

Whether they're brand new, unsold or second hand, many of these items are abandoned or burned in Chile's Atacama desert – releasing toxic fumes, affecting people's health and scarring the landscape. A ...

F rom the very beginning, JWST was shown to be a revolutionary instrument for the study of exoplanets, detecting intriguing ...

UT-Austin just took a big step in its process of building one of the largest telescopes in the world as the Giant Magellan Telescope is moving into its final design phase to get federal funding ...