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

Researchers have discovered a jaw-dropping ecosystem of crystal-clear lagoons and salt plains in Argentina's Puna de Atacama ...

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.

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.

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

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.

"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 ...