Last week, astronomers stationed at the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) Observatory in northern Chile ...

There’s nowhere on Earth quite like the Atacama Desert. Literally: it exists in a basically unique meteorological void, rendering it all but devoid of water and home to almost no life at all.

Tucked away on the Pacific coast of South America, the Atacama Desert, stretching over 1,600 kilometers in northern Chile, is a natural wonder like no other. Its barren, otherworldly landscape ...

Chile's Atacama Desert is a graveyard for the world's junk: Mountains of clothes, shoes and cars litter the landscape scientists believe could reveal how to find life on Mars ...

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

The ALMA radio telescope array in the Atacama Desert temporarily halted operations after a rare snowfall blanketed the base ...

Researchers have discovered a jaw-dropping ecosystem of crystal-clear lagoons and salt plains in Argentina's Puna de Atacama desert that could offer a window onto early life on Earth and Mars.

New images from NASA's Curiosity Mars rover show the first close-up views of a region scientists had previously observed only ...

Abundant, diverse bacterial communities have been found deep beneath the almost uninhabitable surface of the Atacama Desert in Chile. The researchers who discovered them say they're likely 19,000 ...

In Chile, a writer takes a road trip through one of the world’s driest places — a landscape that preserves remnants of the dead. The Valley of Mars in the Atacama Desert, with the Andes in the ...

Traveling to the Atacama Desert feels like stepping onto a different planet. There’s a reason for that—the soil here is similar to that on Mars.