It seems like merely a fact of life on the West Coast that summers are dry. But compared to most of the rest of the country ...

Reach for the stars with our guide to the best dark-sky reserves on the planet, from the French Pyrenees to the Atacama ...

Reach for the stars with our guide to the best dark-sky reserves on the planet, from the French Pyrenees to the Atacama ...

Extremophiles: Life in Extreme Conditions Extremophiles are the superheroes of the microbial world. These organisms find a ...

Mono Lake, located in California near Yosemite ... It looks like any other volcano during the daytime. The Atacama Desert in northern Chile is one of the driest and most desolate places on Earth.

Earth is home to some truly bizarre and breathtaking landscapes — here are 20 that look straight out of an alien world.

category, from the Uyuni salt flats in Bolivia to Chile’s Atacama desert. Add to this a string ... Close to the border with Peru lies Lake Titicaca, the largest in South America and a popular ...

The area offers views of neighboring volcanoes like Llullaillaco and access to the Salinas Grandes salt flats. Indigenous Quechua communities ... Credit: sergejf / CC BY-SA 2.0 Located in Chile’s ...

The open house will happen after a seven-year renovation project. It will be the first opportunity for the general public to ...

It is situated in the middle of the arid Atacama Desert, considered one of the best places on Earth for astronomy. The telescope is located on Armazones Hill, about 3,050 meters (10,000 feet ...

The Great Salt Lake, the largest saltwater lake in the Western Hemisphere, reached historic low levels in 2022, raising economic, ecological and public health concerns for Utah. New research from ...