Here's how to plan a trip to Chile's Atacama Desert, with expert recommendations on where to stay, what to do, and the best ...

Let's talk about what it feels like to be over 15,000 feet high, because honestly, we're (humans) not meant to be up there ...

Learn more about the snowfall that shut down ALMA in the Atacama desert, and how researchers worry this could be a sign of ...

Chile's Atacama desert is best known for its salt lagoons in the north, but head to the Mar de Dunas in the southern part and you will be rewarded with perfect wind-sculptured wave patterns as far as ...

When snow shut down one of Earth’s most advanced telescopes high in Chile’s Atacama Desert, the surprise was not just that ...

As the oldest and driest desert on Earth, Chile's Atacama Desert is a treasure trove of discoveries for scientists and tourists alike.

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 made it ...

The Colla Indigenous people claim Rio Tinto’s plans to extract the key mineral will harm fragile ecosystems and livelihoods ...

Water may be an essential element of life, but to the scarce microbes that inhabit the Mars-like Atacama Desert in Chile, it's death. Studying the effects of once-in-a-century rainfall in the ...

A satellite photo from July shows intricate snowy stripes painted across the Atacama Desert in Chile. The icy weather temporarily put the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) ...