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

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

Travelers should explore the Atacama Desert for its unique landscapes, stargazing opportunities and distinct wildlife.

The Atacama Desert harbors unique desert life with diverse microbes.New techniques separate genetic material in low-biomass ...

The Viking 1 mission ended in November 1982 after a faulty command triggered a loss of contact. In the time since NASA hasn’t ended its search for life on the Red Planet. Studies by the space agency ...

A new technique allows researchers to separate external and internal DNA to identify microbes colonizing the hostile environment of the Atacama Desert.

“If you extract all the DNA, you have DNA from living organisms and also DNA that can represent organisms that just died or ...

The Atacama Desert, which runs along the Pacific Coast in Chile, is the driest place on the planet and, largely because of ...

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, ...

Researchers describe a new way to separate extracellular from intracellular genetic material, allowing better insights into ...

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, ...