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 ...

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 ...

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

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

2004-02-01 04:00:00 PDT San Pedro de Atacama, Chile-- If I wanted to enter the crystal canyon, I was going to have to jump off the edge of a 300-foot-high dune. Jorge, our guide, threw himself down ...

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 ...

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

A dusting of snow blanketed Chile’s Atacama Desert, one of the driest places on Earth. Scientists captured this unusual event ...

The rain fell in the Atacama Desert in Chile for the first time in hundreds of years, and it caused a mass extinction. It might seem natural to think that such rains would be followed by blooming ...