The Atacama Desert, one of the driest places on Earth, is set to burst into bloom with millions of flowers after unusually ...

Thanks to the lack of light pollution and altitude, the Atacama has some of the clearest night skies on earth, making for excellent stargazing. Cool off from the desert heat with refreshing swims in ...

Chile's Atacama Desert swapped its dry, sandy appearance for one of a winter wonderland. And this snow means big changes ...

Nature is full of surprises, and we have known this for a while now. There are events that astonish the human eye and ...

The arid Atacama Desert, thought to be a barrier to early South American settlers, may have held lakes large enough to sustain small human populations, according to new research presented here today.

NASA noted that strengthening El Niño is providing the backdrop for the unusually wet winter in north-central Chile. While ...

Here's a softer side to the disruptive weather phenomenon known as El Nino: an enormous blanket of colorful flowers has carpeted Chile's Atacama desert, the most arid in the world. The cyclical ...

Yet another film uses a desert backdrop for its story. This time it is the Atacama Desert of Chile and Peru that is the setting for the film The 33 starring Antonio Banderas and directed by Patricia ...

When humans first arrived in the Americas, roughly 18,000 to 20,000 years ago, they traveled by boat along the continents’ shorelines. Many settled in coastal regions or along rivers that took them ...