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

Penguins aren’t just found in icy parts of the planet like Antarctica. They're all around the world, including in scrublands, ...

Spanish label Ecoalf and filmmaker Stella Banderas address the Atacama Desert in an anti-Black Friday video, urging shoppers ...

The in-depth story of 2010's Copiapó mining accident ("Chilean mining accident") and mine rescue in the Atacama Desert's San José mine. August 5, 2010. Luis Urzua, the mine supervisor, took his crew ...

ElectraLith is developing a filtration technology that can extract lithium from brine deposits without using water or ...

For the first time ever, a team of astronomers has successfully captured a "zoomed-in" image of a star outside of our own Milky Way Galaxy. The newly imaged dying star, designated WOH G64, is about 2, ...

ElectraLith, a lithium technology startup backed by mining giant Rio Tinto, is set to finalise a funding round in the coming ...

The zoomed-in view was made possible by the European Southern Observatory's powerful Very Large Telescope Interferometer ...

For the first time, international astronomers have successfully captured a close-up image of a star outside the Milky Way ...

In the vast, arid expanse of the Atacama Desert in northern Chile, researchers have made a groundbreaking discovery: life thriving four meters beneath the surface. Covering 105,000 square kilometers, ...

Astronomers have taken the first close-up image of a star beyond our galaxy, and it’s a “monster star” surrounded by a cocoon as it slowly dies.