The team analyzed several patches of the desert, including dunes, gypsum-laced salt flats, high-altitude mountains, river ...

The Atacama Desert is the driest desert in the world (if you don’t include polar deserts). When the conditions are just right ...

Rare winter rains have transformed Chile’s Atacama Desert into a vibrant sea of wildflowers. Scientists explain how dormant ...

No one wants to be that guy waxing on about how beautiful the sunset was on vacation—but what if it was a double sunset? One that seemed to wash the world in pinks and purples, turning an imposing ...

FILE PHOTO: A view shows the area of an unusual winter bloom on Atacama desert prior to the spring phenomenon known as 'Desierto Florido' (Bloomed desert), which fills the driest desert in the world ...

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 ...

Visit during winter for the clearest night skies or in summer for the warmest weather.

Scientists have studied the driest regions of the Atacama Desert to understand whether life could exist on Mars ...

This article originally appeared on Undark. Growing up in Chile’s Atacama Desert, Paulina Villalobos thought the Milky Way’s presence in the pristine starry skies was a given. Her father, an amateur ...

The 51 earth tone, minimalist rooms are accented with traditional stonework, local tapestries, ceramics and furniture in line with the brand’s usual practice of sourcing from and supporting local ...