Professor Azua-Bustos and González-Silva wear sterile suites and use collecting materials in order to avoid the contamination of the sites studied in the Coastal Range of Atacama Desert in Chile.

Chile’s Atacama Desert is a destination I only learned about in a passing conversation with strangers at a Sao Paulo airport last year. Aptly dubbed “the driest place on Earth,” it’s a ...

Pablo Guerrero has been visiting cacti in the Atacama Desert his whole life, first on family trips to the Chilean coast and later as a researcher studying the impacts of climate change and illegal ...

The Atacama Desert in northern Chile offers an extraordinary travel experience that captivates adventurers, astronomers and nature enthusiasts alike. With its extreme altitude, crystal-clear skies and ...

A new technique allows researchers to separate external and internal DNA to identify microbes colonizing the hostile environment of the Atacama Desert. The Atacama Desert, which runs along the ...

The Atacama Desert in Chile is a harsh environment. Yet, once upon a time, humans were traipsing across the landscape committing enormous drawings to the earth – drawings that would endure for ...

Tucked away on the Pacific coast of South America, the Atacama Desert, stretching over 1,600 kilometers in northern Chile, is a natural wonder like no other. Its barren, otherworldly landscape ...

South America’s answer to the Sahara, the southern part of the Atacama Desert is known as the Sea of Dunes (“Mar de Dunas”), with those dunes spanning 335 square kilometres (129 square miles).

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 ...

From Gold Rush-era mining towns cast out in the desert to ancient cities ravaged by time, the world is filled with abandoned settlements that act as a window into the past. Click or scroll on as ...