Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

German scientists made a shocking discovery in one of Earth's driest regions, possibly changing how experts understand the most extreme environments. A team of scientists from the University of ...

It’s dry, barren and sparse. The otherworldly landscapes of northern Chile’s Atacama Desert could easily be from Mars. It is the driest desert in the world outside of the polar regions, and its 40,500 ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Chile's Atacama Desert, the driest nonpolar desert on Earth, stretches across a roughly 600-mile ...

“Desert selfie” in the driest place on the planet: the Atacama Desert in northern Chile. If you want to go to Mars but can’t quite afford the hundreds of billions of dollars for a ticket, there is ...

The driest, highest desert on Earth, Chile's Atacama Desert, also holds the world's richest nitrate and iodine deposits. As such, a "white gold" rush there fueled Europe's bombs in World War I and ...

Standing in the middle of the Atacama Desert, it’s easy to feel like the only person on Earth. The region is isolated and one of the driest regions in the world. Drier deserts can only be found at the ...