There’s nowhere on Earth quite like the Atacama Desert. Literally: it exists in a basically unique meteorological void, ...

The Atacama Desert harbors unique desert life with diverse microbes.New techniques separate genetic material in low-biomass ...

The Atacama Desert, which runs along the Pacific Coast in Chile, is the driest place on the planet and, largely because of ...

Astrobiologist Dirk Schulze-Makuch from the Technische Universität Berlin in Germany believes that humans may have ...

Conservation efforts in South America are overly focused on the Amazon rainforest, neglecting other critical ecosystems such ...

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

New research reveals that 70% of meteorites that strike Earth originate from three young asteroid families in the main ...

Washington, D.C.-The Atacama Desert, which runs along the Pacific Coast in Chile, is the driest place on the planet and, largely because of that ...

Researchers describe a new way to separate extracellular from intracellular genetic material, allowing better insights into ...

After spending three months in one of the driest places in the world, writer Mark Johanson is eager to return.

A new technique allows researchers to separate external and internal DNA to identify microbes colonizing the hostile environment of the Atacama Desert.