Dr. Dirk Schulze-Makuch believes his research into extremophiles in the Atacama could help NASA re-assess its search for ...

Botanist Pablo Guerrero has been visiting Atacama cacti all his life. They’re not adapting well to a drier climate, booming mining and plant collection.

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.

When Vikings landed on Lindisfarne’s shores in 793, slaughtering the local English populace and pillaging the monastery of ...

The Atacama Desert in Chile, known as the driest place on Earth, experiences a rare phenomenon called the Atacama Desert Bloom. Despite minimal rainfall, the desert thrives on camanchaca ...

The Atacama Desert is one of the most extreme habitats ... The method provides better insights into microbial life in low-biomass environments, which was previously not possible with conventional ...

The Atacama Desert, Chile. The driest non-polar desert ... It is a region so barren and devoid of life that Nasa regularly uses it to simulate and practise for their landings on Mars.

As per the latest development, a new research has unveiled a rich microbial ‘biosphere’ thriving 13 ft beneath the desolate ...

"The experiments performed by NASA's Viking landers may have accidentally killed Martian life by applying too much water," scientist Dirk Schulze-Makuch said.

The Atacama Desert, which runs along the Pacific Coast ... environment and preparing the ground for the next succession of life," Wagner said. These processes, he said, aren't limited to the ...

Each species discovered there adds a crucial piece to the puzzle of how life has evolved and even ... prey upon smaller amphipod species in the Atacama (Peru-Chile) Trench's food-limited realm.