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 ...

Researchers digging more than 13 feet into the parched floor of Chile’s Atacama Desert have found evidence of something long thought unlikely there: microbial communities persisting beneath one of the ...

Underneath the parched sands of Atacama is a massive, diverse group of bacteria and a previously undetected biosphere, according to a new study. Reading time 2 minutes The Atacama Desert—an arid, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Brianna Randall writes about the intersection of travel and science. The Valle de la Muerte (Death Valley) near San Pedro de ...

The Atacama Desert in northern Chile is one of the driest places on Earth, but swaths of its usually barren sand are currently carpeted with a colorful bloom of white and purple flowers. The Atacama ...

The Atacama Desert in northern Chile offers an extraordinary travel experience that captivates adventurers, astronomers and nature enthusiasts alike. With its extreme altitude, crystal-clear skies and ...

A Chilean astronomer has become dedicated to battling light pollution in the Atacama Desert and preserve what is considered the best place on Earth to study space. Eduardo Unda-Sanzana at the Paranal ...

With some of the world’s clearest skies, the Elqui Valley on the edge of the Atacama Desert offers an unparalleled lens into outer space — with Casona Distante, a lodge at the end of a lonely road, ...

Stretching across northern Chile and southern Peru, the Atacama is the driest non-polar desert on the planet. With its "Martian landscapes" and sprawling salt flats, the arid "geographical ...