Extreme microbes detected in the hyper-arid Atacama Desert hint at the ways organisms might eke out a living in the Martian underground.

Staff from The Peregrine Fund, a raptor-focused conservation group that leads condor restoration in the region, spent their days collecting sick and dying birds from the desert landscape and closely ...

The ALMA radio telescope array in the Atacama Desert temporarily halted operations after a rare snowfall blanketed the base ...

The Atacama Desert of Chile is largely considered the driest place on Earth, but recently saw the moon-like landscape ...

Operation Desert Storm was 10 seconds away. Tom O’Neal was about to fire the first shot in the war that would end Saddam Hussein’s occupation of Kuwait.

In the long term, the results could help to develop new materials for energy-efficient magnetic cooling. The emerald-green mineral atacamite, named for the place it was first found, the Atacama Desert ...

Discover why Antarctica no longer has lush forests with giant ferns and how ancient fires fueled intense volcanic activity.

Residents of the world's driest desert, the Atacama in northern Chile, woke up Thursday to a jaw-dropping spectacle: its famous lunar landscape blanketed in snow.

The desert in northern #Chile has been home to cutting-edge telescopes for decades. The #ALMA observatory in the Atacama reported that its main facility had not seen snow for 10 years.