Following a rare superbloom event, Desierto Florido National Park was created to safeguard nearly 200 flower species—and many other scientific marvels—in the Atacama Desert. Thousands of wildflowers ...

Scientists discovered a new crustacean species in the Atacama Trench, 8,000 meters deep, revealing the Hadal zone as a ...

SANTIAGO, Nov 10 (Reuters) - On a rare rainy spring day in Santiago, a group of Cuban athletes toured a gym, one of their first public activities since they represented their country at the ...

After a 15-day overland journey during which she feared a heart attack from the high altitude, Venezuelan hairdresser ...

As I write this, things seem almost as they were a few short days ago in this part of Santiago. Here, life is slowly returning to normal, people are going to work, the subway is running again and most ...

If there’s life — or evidence of past life — on Mars, it’s terrifyingly likely that we might accidentally miss finding it, maybe by just a few centimeters. At a dry lakebed in Chile’s Atacama desert, ...

deployed in future Mars missions. “Our life detection system worked very well, and something like it ultimately may enable robots to look for life on Mars,” said Alan Waggoner, Atacama team member and ...

When Giovanna Grandón, a 46-year-old school-bus driver, shimmied down the streets of Santiago in a Pikachu costume two years ago, she had no idea how drastically her life was about to change. A few ...