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

Snow covered Chile's Atacama Desert, offering a rare sight of winter in a place with almost nonexistent rainfall and normally ...

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 ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is poised to discover billions of new astronomical objects, revolutionizing understanding of ...

The Atacama Desert in Chile is a harsh environment. Yet, once upon a time, humans were traipsing across the landscape committing enormous drawings to the earth – drawings that would endure for ...

The Atacama Desert is a conflicted prospect—unflinchingly flat in parts, yet fringed by the last, westernmost outriders of the Andes; a 49,000-square-mile ... Bolivia, and Peru.

The Atacama Desert is rich in minerals, which has caused conflict in the past. The War of the Pacific took place over 1879-1883 between Chile, Peru and Bolivia. Related articles ...

For more than eight million years, the 100,000 square kilometer expanse of the Atacama has been the most arid desert in the world. Rain is rare, and in some parts, non-existent.

San Pedro de Atacama, the desert’s tourist hub, is an isolated hot spot of human hustle. Every evening I was there, a wind kicked up before sunset and dropped off as soon as darkness fell.

Forget Arizona or Florida — sun worshippers ought to head to the Atacama Desert in South America. ... Peru and Argentina — experiences the most intense levels of sunlight on Earth.

The Atacama Desert city of Arica, just below Peru’s border, holds the record for the world’s longest dry spell — researchers believe not a single drop of rain fell within its borders for ...

Ckunsa, the language of the Lickanantay people who have lived in the Atacama Desert for more than 11,000 years, was declared “extinct” in the 1950s. But it is still very much alive in the ...