Despite its extreme dryness, the desert is known as world's largest fog desert, with fog providing some moisture, particularly in coastal areas ...

Chile's Atacama desert is the driest desert in the world. It receives almost no rainfall and supports no animal or plant life. But it is one of the best places in the world to conduct ...

Chile's "Hidden Lagoons" are gorgeous salt pools in the middle of the Atacama Desert. The pools are so high in salinity that swimmers can effortlessly float on their surface. Written and produced ...

Thomas Richard Marsh, an astrophysicist at University of Warwick, was last seen a week ago near the astronomical observatory La Silla on the outskirts of the Atacama Desert where he is understood ...

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 ...

"The satellite image that we ordered of the clothes pile in Chile's Atacama Desert really puts things ... Adding to the problem is the fact that the clothing cannot be sent to municipal landfills ...

A self-portrait of an alien? A valley of whale fossils? The wonders are mind-boggling in both these bone-dry beauties, so which one to visit first? Our duelling experts help you decide.

From the secluded landscapes of Utah in the US, to the arid expanses of the Atacama desert in Chile, there are plenty of sites to enjoy astrotourism. In fact, several luxurious hotels and resorts ...