The Atacama desert has entered Spring with landscape of wildflowers. It's a wonderful cautionary tale for astronomy.

From a distance, the Ivanpah solar plant looks like a shimmering lake in the Mojave Desert. Up close, it’s a vast alien-like installation of hundreds of thousand of mirrors pointed at three ...

However, light that leaves our star also contains UVC radiation, which has a shorter wavelength than UVA or UVB light and ...

The Atacama Desert is the driest desert region on Earth, with incredibly little moisture or precipitation. Animals and plants are hard to come by, but bacteria could be below the surface.

Our journey to the highest desert in the world begins in Potosi, in southwestern Bolivia.

From a distance, the Ivanpah solar plant looks like a shimmering lake in the Mojave Desert. Up close, it’s a vast alien-like installation of hundreds of thousand of mirrors pointed at three ...

The Atacama Desert is the driest desert region on Earth, with incredibly little moisture or precipitation. Animals and plants are hard to come by, but bacteria could be below the surface.

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — From a distance, the Ivanpah solar plant looks like a shimmering lake in the Mojave Desert. Up close, it’s a vast alien-like installation of hundreds of thousand ...