Pablo Guerrero has been visiting cacti in the Atacama Desert his whole life, first on family trips to the Chilean coast and later as a researcher studying the impacts of climate change and illegal ...

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

Perhaps the closest analog to Mars on Earth is the Atacama Desert in Chile. It is the driest nonpolar desert on Earth, and it experiences almost no rain. One scientist, Dr. Dirk Schulze-Makuch ...

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 ...

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 ...

An astrobiologist suggests that NASA's Viking missions in the 1970s may have inadvertently eliminated potential Martian life.

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

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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates--The United Arab Emirates attempted to dry out Wednesday from the heaviest rain the desert nation has ever recorded — a deluge that flooded out Dubai International ...