Hey adventurers! Santiago, Chile, and its surroundings offer city life, natural beauty, and cultural experiences. Explore ...

The Atacama Desert in Northern Chile has been a bit of a secret destination for those who love stargazing and other-worldly hiking terrains. It is home to ALMA, the world’s largest radio ...

Discover the top must-see attractions and activities in Chile’s Atacama Desert, the driest place on Earth! From salt flats to ...

The Atacama desert is the only place in the world where saltpetre, a type of nitrate which used to be used in explosives and fertilisers, can be found. It's easily dissolved by rain so the Atacama ...

Cacti in the Atacama are particularly vulnerable to disturbances. Many species live in only a few square kilometers. And in the driest reaches of the desert, cacti depend on fog alone for water.

See, the Atacama Desert may well be one of the planet’s most spectacular landscapes, but at 2,400 metres above sea level, it doesn’t half play havoc with the human constitution.

The Atacama skeleton, a mummified body found in Chile's desert, was a preterm fetus with multiple genetic defects and not an alien, new DNA analysis shows.