I’ve since traveled the globe to see the world’s countless after-dark wonders, including aurora hunts from hot springs in Iceland, stargazing from Chile’s remote Atacama Desert, and treks ...

in the Atacama Desert some 1150 km north of Santiago, on June 21, 2022. Just before midnight on Thursday and into the early hours of Friday is the peak of the Leonid meteor shower in dark moonless ...

The Atacama Desert in northern Chile is one of the driest places on Earth, but swaths of its usually barren sand are currently carpeted with a colorful bloom of white and purple flowers.

When Eduardo Unda-Sanzana arrived in Chile’s Atacama Desert to teach astronomy, the darkness was disorienting. The remote location of the small observatory at Catholic University of the North ...

The Valley of Mars in the Atacama Desert, with the Andes in the distance.Credit...By Anthony Cotsifas Supported by By Maggie Shipstead Photographs and Video by Anthony Cotsifas WHEN I RETURNED my ...