Researchers digging more than 13 feet into the parched floor of Chile’s Atacama Desert have found evidence of something long thought unlikely there: microbial communities persisting beneath one of the ...

Even in the ultra-dry Atacama Desert, tiny soil-dwelling nematodes are thriving in surprising diversity. Scientists found that biodiversity increases with moisture and altitude shapes which species ...

With some of the world’s clearest skies, the Elqui Valley on the edge of the Atacama Desert offers an unparalleled lens into outer space — with Casona Distante, a lodge at the end of a lonely road, ...