The construction of the world’s largest visible- and infrared-light telescope is making significant strides in the remote ...

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. It’s the driest desert in the world and ...

Chile's Atacama Desert, the driest nonpolar desert on Earth, stretches across a roughly 600-mile (1,000 kilometers) tract of land wedged between the coastal Cordillera de la Costa mountain range ...

Standing in the middle of the Atacama Desert, it’s easy to feel like the only person on Earth. The region is isolated and one of the driest regions in the world. Drier deserts can only be found ...

It’s dry, barren and sparse. The otherworldly landscapes of northern Chile’s Atacama Desert could easily be from Mars. It is the driest desert in the world outside of the polar regions ...

The Valley of Mars in the Atacama Desert, with the Andes in the distance.Credit...By Anthony Cotsifas Supported by By Maggie Shipstead Photographs and Video by Anthony Cotsifas WHEN I RETURNED my ...

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.

One thing not lacking in Chile's Atacama Desert is sunshine. Being the driest desert on Earth, it boasts some of the highest levels of sunshine in the world. Here in the north of Chile ...