Licancabur returns my stare, a peak of such conical perfection that it might almost be the model volcano—an idealized poster image ... the rest of the Atacama Desert praying at its broad feet.

Sometimes poster-size photos of the dead were mounted ... Anthony Cotsifas San Pedro de Atacama, the desert’s tourist hub, is an isolated hot spot of human hustle. Every evening I was there ...

The Atacama Desert in Northern Chile has been a bit of a secret destination for those who love stargazing and other-worldly hiking terrains. It is home to ALMA, the world’s largest radio ...

The Atacama Desert in Chile is a harsh environment. Yet, once upon a time, humans were traipsing across the landscape committing enormous drawings to the earth – drawings that would endure for ...

The Atacama Desert in northern Chile is one of the driest places on Earth, but swaths of its usually barren sand are currently carpeted with a colorful bloom of white and purple flowers.

"This very arid soil houses a treasure," ecologist María Fernanda Pérez told Live Science after the Atacama Desert produced a rare winter bloom. When you purchase through links on our site ...

Traveling to the Atacama Desert feels like stepping onto a different planet. There’s a reason for that — the soil here is similar to that on Mars. It’s the driest desert in the world and ...

a tiny town of adobe bricks and whitewashed plaster in Chile’s Atacama Desert, is a whirl of billowing linen shirts, sun cream and ponchos. Tour operators and vendors call out to visitors in ...

A hike through part of Chile's Atacama Desert reveals seas of sand dunes, some of the world's best stargazing spots, and surprising meals Crescent-shaped sand dunes rise and fall steeply ...

When Eduardo Unda-Sanzana arrived in Chile’s Atacama Desert to teach astronomy, the darkness was disorienting. The remote location of the small observatory at Catholic University of the North ...

Growing up in Chile’s Atacama Desert, Paulina Villalobos thought the Milky Way’s presence in the pristine starry skies was a given. Her father, an amateur astronomer, would wake her when a ...