Chile's Atacama desert is best known for its salt lagoons in the north, but head to the Mar de Dunas in the southern part and you will be rewarded with perfect wind-sculptured wave patterns as far as ...

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 comet ...

" Chasing a Plate is in the Atacama Desert, Chile! It's time to explore the Atacama Desert geysers. We get up at 4:30am to make our way to Geyser del Tatio for sunrise. Watching the light come up and ...

Up on the high plains of the Atacama Desert in Chile, tens of thousands of worshippers recently gathered for an annual Catholic celebration with a twist, as John Bartlett reports. JOHN BARTLETT, ...

The Atacama Desert of northern Chile is mostly known as one of the driest places on the planet and for being home to several major astronomical observatories. It was also home to the Atacama people, ...

In Chile’s Atacama Desert, archaeologists have discovered some of the world’s oldest naturally preserved mummies—older even than Egypt’s. The desert’s extreme d ...

Imagine a landscape so barren it resembles Mars itself, where some weather stations have never recorded a single drop of rain in their entire operational history. This isn't science fiction – it's the ...