As the oldest and driest desert on Earth, Chile's Atacama Desert is a treasure trove of discoveries for scientists and ...

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 ...

" Chasing a Plate is in the Atacama Desert, Chile! It's time to explore the Atacama Desert geysers. We get up at 4:30am to ...

I am only steps outside the airport in Calama, Chile, when an awesome sight halts me in my tracks, said Chris Leadbeater at National Geographic Traveler. A perfect volcano, rising 4,330 feet to a ...

" Chasing a Plate is in the Atacama Desert, Chile! It's Day 2 of our Atacama Desert road trip and we manage to cover Laguna ...

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 ...

The U.S.'s Allie Gibbons signed up for The Speed Project Atacama before she knew she was pregnant—and decided to keep going ...

In order to search for life on other planets, scientists are studying extreme environments on Earth to understand what that life might look like if they find it. Future Mars rovers like NASA’s 2020 ...

As one of the driest places on Earth, Chile’s Atacama Desert is one of the last places you’d expect a trip to be ruined by rain. Dirk Schulze-Makuch happened to be so lucky. In early 2015, he was ...

Although the technology exists to separate these fibers for reuse, it remains in its early stages and is costly to scale. In ...

When rains fell in the Atacama Desert for the first time in centuries, scientists had expected to see life blossom. Instead, almost everything died. The rest of this article is behind a paywall.

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