Outside of a handful of valleys in Antarctica, the Atacama is the driest place on Earth. The inhospitable landscape of sand, ...

If life can exist deep under the Atacama Desert, maybe it can also exist under the surface of Mars. Credit: Diego Delso/Wikimedia Commons What does this have to do with Mars, though? The Red ...

The Atacama Desert, renowned as the driest hot desert ... especially considering Mars' similar geological features. The presence of gypsum deposits on Mars raises great possibilities for microbial ...

“On Earth there are several environments similar to Mars, some of them are the Tinto River in Spain, the Atacama Desert in Chile, the Mojave Desert in the United States, Antarctica, the Sahara ...

The driest deserts, such as Chile's Atacama Desert, have parts that receive less ... have even studied them for clues about life on Mars. On the other hand, every few years, an unusually rainy ...

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 world's largest telescope continues to take shape on the Cerro Armazones mountain in Chile's Atacama Desert. In a recent update describing the progress of the construction of the Extremely ...

Located in Chile’s Atacama Desert lies the highest motorable road ... Travelers may encounter flamingos in nearby saline lakes or explore the Mars-like valleys of the Puna de Atacama plateau.

Close up of the stairways up to the top of ESO's Extremely Large Telescope in Chile's Atacama Desert. | Credit: ESO/G. Vecchia These mirrors will allow astronomers to peer into the cosmos like ...