This hot desert area has not seen rain in five centuries and it’s so dry it’s gained a reputation for its record-breaking ...

One might assume that marine fossils are exclusively unearthed in sedimentary coastal or underwater deposits. This is far ...

The Atacama Desert stretches along the coast of northern Chile, encompassing over 40,000 square miles of arid land. It has a reputation as the driest desert in the world, although that distinction ...

Most Atacama tourists are drawn to the ... Antarctica prevents rain clouds from forming on the coast. But there has always been life in the desert. Thousands of years ago, indigenous groups ...

The penguins are able to survive in the Atacama Desert thanks to the Humboldt current, as it cools ... [+] these coastal waters by several degrees compared to other ocean waters at the same latitude.

Some 3,800 years ago a massive 9.5-magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami with waves as high as 20 metres (66 feet) slammed the coastline of Chile’s Atacama Desert, the world’s driest ...

Researchers in Spain have investigated how climate change may possibly impact solar power generation in the world’s region with the highest solar radiation levels – the Atacama desert in ...

on the Paranal Hill in the Atacama Desert, 130 kilometers south of Antofagasta and 12 km from the Pacific Ocean Coast. The Nobel Prize in Physics in 2020 was awarded for research on the ...

Thomas Richard Marsh, an astrophysicist at University of Warwick, was last seen a week ago near the astronomical observatory La Silla on the outskirts of the Atacama Desert where he is understood ...

It is situated in the middle of the arid Atacama Desert, considered one of the best places on Earth for astronomy. The telescope is located on Armazones Hill, about 3,050 meters (10,000 feet ...