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

The extraordinary event temporarily shut down equipment at the ALMA Observatory, and the snow reached the telescope's main ...

The Atacama Desert of Chile is largely considered the driest place on Earth, but recently saw the moon-like landscape ...

Deep in Chile’s Atacama Desert, scientists studied a green crystal called atacamite—and discovered it can cool itself ...

In Chile’s arid Atacama, the driest desert in the world, growers and researchers are looking to harness water from the very ...

The summer of 2025 has been very warm to hot across much of the western U.S. Here in Coeur d’Alene, we’ve already had six days with high temperatures at or above the 90-degree mark. Our hottest day ...

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

A dramatic double supernova explosion has been captured for the first time by a team of scientists, including a ­Trinity ...

When science organizations in the United States, Europe, and Japan dreamed up a new, ultra-powerful millimeter and ...

The Atacama Desert, the driest place on Earth, has been covered in an unexpected layer of snow. In this area, rain is ...

Record low temperatures were recorded as far south as Chile's Atacama Desert, where snow fell for the first time in a decade, ...