In the predawn hours of July 1, 2025, a faint streak of light caught the attention of astronomers peering through data from a ...

The study suggests that Mars has been self-regulating as a desert planet, with habitability being the exception, rather than ...

New research shows how Mars may have undone its own habitability, while Earth stayed stable enough to support life.

The extraordinary event temporarily shut down equipment at the ALMA Observatory, and the snow reached the telescope's main ...

The Atacama Desert, known as the driest place on Earth and famed for its alien, Mars-like landscape, stunned scientists and ...

A hidden box-lattice suggests groundwater sculpted Mars long after surface water fled; Curiosity’s drills aim to confirm the ...

With less annual rainfall than 1 mm per year, Chile’s Atacama Desert is one of the driest places in the world. The main water source of cities in the region are underground rock layers that contain ...

Curiosity finds strange boxwork ridges on Mars that hint at ancient underground water. Scientists are now drilling for ...

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

For scientists and space researchers, the Atacama Desert isn’t just any stretch of earth, it's Earth’s closest analog to the ...