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 ...

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

Thanks to the lack of light pollution and altitude, the Atacama has some of the clearest night skies on earth, making for excellent stargazing. Cool off from the desert heat with refreshing swims in ...

Chile’s Atacama Desert is one of the darkest spots on Earth, a crown jewel for astronomers who flock to study the origins of ...

The Atacama Desert—an arid, unpopulated swath of northern Chile that is home to some of the most perceptive ground telescopes on Earth—is actually teeming with life beneath the ground, according to a ...

Fly above the Atacama Desert, showcasing one of the most extreme and visually striking landscapes on Earth. Located in ...

Would you prefer to live in a place where it never rains or snows? You could live on the moon, but consider this: The driest place on Earth is the Atacama Desert in northern Chile. Along the coast of ...

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 made it ...

The autonomous, solar-powered Zoë, which became the first robot to map microbial life during a 2005 field expedition in Chile’s Atacama Desert, is heading back to the world’s driest desert this month ...

Astronomers urged Chile to relocate a planned hydrogen plant, saying it could raise light pollution and affect major observatories in the Atacama Desert ...

An early grid battery was installed in the Atacama Desert in Chile 15 years ago. Now, as prices have tumbled, they are ...