The Canadian miner’s reinvention as a critical-metals player—via its massive copper mine in Chile’s Andean foothills— could ...

In February 2025, conditions were just right to catch a "planetary party" above the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) ...

ATACAMA DESERT, Chile — At the top of a craggy path in Socaire, a hilltop village deep in Chile's Atacama Desert, a black flag whips in the wind above Jeanette Cruz's house. The desert sun has ...

The desert’s remoteness and ... to move them to new locations on the plateau as needed. By the time it was officially inaugurated in March 2013, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter ...

In Alto Hospicio, a rapidly growing city in the Atacama Desert where the annual ... Rising like a mirage from the desert plateau, Alto Hospicio faces a critical challenge shared by many rapidly ...

and salt lakes of western China and the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau. In the driest desert in the world—the Atacama Desert of Chile—Kimberley teamed with Carnegie Mellon Institute of Robotics for several ...