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

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

The UK Astronomy Technology Centre is set to begin manufacturing the first instrument for the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) ...

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 has become a ‘global sacrifice zone’ of used fast fashion. Activists and designers organised an event to raise awareness of the devastation to the land and people Draped in ...

Abundant, diverse bacterial communities have been found deep beneath the almost uninhabitable surface of the Atacama Desert in Chile. The researchers who discovered them say they're likely 19,000 ...

Our planet is incredibly vast, with everything from rainforests to very dry deserts. Due to their locations and precipitation ...

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

The Atacama Desert, renowned as the driest hot desert on Earth, poses formidable challenges to life, with only a handful of animals managing to survive its harsh conditions. Yet, within its salty ...

Astronomers have discovered an Earth-size planet orbiting a red dwarf star, making just the second planetary system seen ...

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 ...