Experience the majesty of The Atacama Desert through stunning drone footage. Soar above colorful peaks, vast stretches of ...

A cracked playa in Yungay Valley, one of the Atacama Desert's driest places They selected a site in a playa of the Yungay Valley, one of the driest places of the desert’s hyper-arid core.

This transition zone coincided with a change from clay-rich soils known as playa deposits to ancient ... which could release water within Atacama soils. The Atacama desert is often used as an ...

This megaproject, which was proposed in December by U.S. power company AES Corporation's AES Andes subsidiary, may be built in Chile's Atacama Desert. The Atacama is famed for its pitch-black ...

A device involving solar panels and a gel produces substantial amounts of water in one of the world’s driest deserts.

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.

Yungay Playa with typical dry cracks ... Persistent microbial communities in hyperarid subsurface habitats of the Atacama Desert: Insights from intracellular DNA analysis, PNAS Nexus (2024).

The Valley of Mars in the Atacama Desert, with the Andes in the distance.Credit...By Anthony Cotsifas Supported by By Maggie Shipstead Photographs and Video by Anthony Cotsifas WHEN I RETURNED my ...

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 ...

The dark skies of Chile's Atacama Desert are perfect for skywatching, especially when a parade of six planets and a comet grace the night sky all at once. In February 2025, conditions were just ...

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 ...