The construction of the world’s largest visible- and infrared-light telescope is making significant strides in the remote ...

Here are the top 5 largest deserts in the world. The conditions of these desserts, the environment they exist within, along with reasons for their size and enormity, are present here. Antarctic is ...

An initial mineral resource estimate shows that the Filo del Sol deposit high in the Argentine Andes likely contains five ...

In Chile's Atacama Desert, the European Southern Observatory is constructing the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), poised to ...

Beneath Chile’s brilliant skies, the ELT grows—an engineering giant ready to capture the secrets of the universe with the ...

The ELT is on its way to becoming the largest optical telescope in the world, and as it rises beneath some of the clearest ...

Algeria, Africa’s largest country, is throwing its doors open to record numbers of visitors. Roman ruins and trekking through ...

The Empty Quarter, or Rub al-Khali in Arabic, is one of the largest deserts in the world. Covering nearly 650,000 square kilometers (250,000 square miles), mainly in Saudi Arabia, it dominates the ...

But the sea is rich with life. ♪ The Andes cut through Patagonia, blocking moist air flowing from the Pacific, creating the eighth-largest desert in the world. But off the Atlantic coast ...