A brutal environment The Atacama stretches some 600 miles along the coast of South America — its borders aren’t precise — and is flanked on the east by the volcanic Altiplano of the Andes ...

Far from being barren wastelands, deserts are biologically rich habitats with a vast array of animals and plants that have ...

This discovery, Dulcibella camanchaca, was made in the pitch black nearly 8,000 meters deep — close to the height of Mount Everest — in the South Pacific Ocean’s Atacama trench near Chile.

The Atacama Desert in Chile, the driest in the world, is SNOWY!” the observatory wrote on X. The event was so unprecedented in recent history that it suspended scientific operations at ALMA’s ...

In Chile's arid Atacama, the driest desert in the world, growers and researchers are looking to harness water from the very air itself to grow lettuces and lemons, using a net to catch drops of ...