Visit during winter for the clearest night skies or in summer for the warmest weather.

The Atacama Desert offers one of the clearest windows into the universe found anywhere on Earth. Its extreme dryness, high ...

I am staring through one of the largest public telescopes in the world from an observatory in northern Chile. The tiny sparkling object I’m looking at is Sirius, the brightest star in the sky. Through ...

When snow shut down one of Earth’s most advanced telescopes high in Chile’s Atacama Desert, the surprise was not just that the instruments went dark, but that it happened in a place famous for almost ...