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

Botanist Pablo Guerrero has been visiting Atacama cacti all his life. They’re not adapting well to a drier climate, booming mining and plant collection.

The Atacama Desert in Chile, known as the driest place on Earth, experiences a rare phenomenon called the Atacama Desert Bloom. Despite minimal rainfall, the desert thrives on camanchaca ...

In 1976, NASA’s Viking 1 mission deployed two spacecraft to investigate Mars and search for signs of life. Experiments conducted on Martian soil aimed to detect life by adding water and nutrients, ass ...

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

A lithium technology startup backed by Rio Tinto expects to finalise a funding round in the next week to raise A$29 million ...

The Atacama Desert, Chile. The driest non-polar desert ... fuel and, crucially, water to sustain six runners and their support staff for one, long continuous run across a moon-like landscape.

There’s nowhere on Earth quite like the Atacama Desert. Literally: it exists in a basically unique meteorological void, rendering it all but devoid of water and home to almost no life at all.