"This very arid soil houses a treasure," ecologist María Fernanda Pérez told Live Science after the Atacama Desert produced a rare winter bloom. When you purchase through links on our site ...

The dark skies of Chile's Atacama Desert are perfect for skywatching ... Paranal Observatory. In new photos of this planet parade, the wispy glow of our own Milky Way galaxy is accompanied ...

The Atacama Desert is in bloom, with flowers covering arid stretches in shades of white and purple. This unusual winter bloom, the first in ten years, is the result of rainfall in April. Rare winter ...

[Photos: The Haunting Splendor of Chile's Atacama Desert ] Now, Reich and an international group of collaborators think they've finally solved the mystery, thanks to painstaking chemical analysis ...

Pablo Guerrero has been visiting cacti in the Atacama Desert his whole life ... “Comparing today’s populations with historical photos that a botanist took, it’s easy to see the change ...

Sometimes poster-size photos of the dead were mounted outside ... Anthony Cotsifas San Pedro de Atacama, the desert’s tourist hub, is an isolated hot spot of human hustle.

ATACAMA DESERT, Chile — At the top of a craggy path in Socaire, a hilltop village deep in Chile's Atacama Desert, a black flag whips in the wind above Jeanette Cruz's house. The desert sun has ...

For the first time in a decade, plants in the Atacama Desert have started flowering in the middle of winter, covering a portion of the driest desert on the planet in white and violet hues.

The moon, the Milky Way, Saturn, Venus, Jupiter Mars, Neptune, Uranus and comet C/2024 G3 seen above the European Southern Observatory's Paranal Observatory in Chile's Atacama Desert. . | Credit ...