In a discovery with implications for the search for extraterrestrial life, scientists have uncovered microbial life 13 feet ...

Researchers have found microbes thriving 13 feet beneath the scorched surface of Chile's Atacama Desert, marking the deepest discovery of microbial life in the region to date. A rich microbial ...

The Atacama Desert—an arid, unpopulated swath of northern Chile that is home to some of the most perceptive ground telescopes on Earth—is actually teeming with life beneath the ground ...

The Atacama Desert in Northern Chile is the driest desert on Earth. The only life there is microbial, and researchers study ...

This article originally appeared on Undark. Growing up in Chile’s Atacama Desert, Paulina Villalobos thought the Milky Way’s presence in the pristine starry skies was a given. Her father, an ...

The University of Tokyo Atacama Observatory (TAO) officially opened on Tuesday after 26 years of planning and construction.

While the Atacama Desert’s aridity means that higher forms of life are scarce, it’s well-known that diverse bacteria dominate its soils. However, the researchers aimed to go deeper to see what ...

A new molecular DNA analysis technique has enabled the detection of viable microbes at depths of up to 4.20 meters. This ...

While microbial life had been previously documented down to depths of 2.6 ft in the Atacama Desert, this newfound biosphere presents a remarkable revelation. Secluded from the surface, this hidden ...

For a long time, the extremely dry soils of the Chilean Atacama Desert were considered completely lifeless. In one of its driest regions, a team of scientists around Lucas Horstmann and Dirk ...

The UK is ready to build the world’s largest ground-based optical telescope: Extremely Large Telescope (ELT). As per the ...