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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.

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

POTSDAM, Germany — In a remarkable discovery, researchers have found evidence of living microbes thriving in one of the most inhospitable environments on Earth – the Atacama Desert of Chile. This vast ...

Desolate, arid and virtually lifeless – that’s how one would traditionally describe the Atacama Desert. Stretching across the Pacific coast in Chile, this unforgiving territory is known as the driest ...

As microbial life in the Atacama Desert dies when exposed to too much water, the space agency may have killed this life with its liquid water life detection experiments. In other words ...

Northwestern University is officially a founding partner of the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT), an enormous ground-based ...

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.

That's because he argues life on Mars may be relying on salt deposits, much like the organisms that live in the driest places on Earth, such as the microbes habitating the Atacama Desert in Chile.

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