Chile's pristine, dark desert skies, world-renowned for astronomy, are at risk of being outshined by urban and industrial ...

Unfortunately, however, fans hoping for such signs of life on desert worlds ... is generally not a sandy planet, for instance, and Saturn's moon Titan is covered in dark sands made from organic ...

The Atacama Desert in Chile is home to some of the most pristine dark skies on the planet. Among the astronomical sites, Cerro Paranal has the darkest and clearest skies – it is no accident that ...