Outside of a handful of valleys in Antarctica, the Atacama is the driest place on Earth. The inhospitable landscape of sand, bare rock, and salt flats is so extreme and otherworldly that it’s used as ...

Instruments like the those currently on the Red Planet were used to study samples collected from an 'Mars-like' area in Chile's Atacama Desert. Researchers found that the instruments have little ...

The idea of any living thing surviving tens of thousands of years in deep freeze sounds straight out of science fiction. But ...

2010 — 33 men are rescued from a mine in Copiapó, after being trapped for 69 days At the San José copper–gold mine in the Atacama Desert, all 33 trapped miners ... takes a selfie on Mars The rover ...

Their discovery showed that even tucked away in our innards – in the walls of our stomachs, subjected to vinegar-like pH ...

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 ...

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 ...

Widely considered the driest place on Earth, the Atacama Desert receives less than 15 millimeters (0.6 inches) of rainfall per year, with some weather stations never having recorded any rain at all.