Pablo Guerrero has been visiting cacti in the Atacama Desert his whole life, first on family trips to the Chilean coast and later as a researcher studying the impacts of climate change and illegal ...

You could be forgiven for thinking there’s no water in the Atacama Desert. In fact, the driest desert on Earth has ...

Image credits: Hasterok et al. The study introduces two primary models: Global Geologic Provinces: These are spatially accurate maps encompassing a uniform set of common geological characteristics ...

Thomas Richard Marsh, an astrophysicist at University of Warwick, was last seen a week ago near the astronomical observatory La Silla on the outskirts of the Atacama Desert where he is understood ...

the world's largest visible- and infrared-light telescope — is currently under development on the Cerro Armazones mountain in Chile's Atacama Desert. The mighty telescope is expected to see its ...

The other rocky planets in the solar system have a single, rigid shell of crust — a geological arrangement that scientists call "stagnant lid" or "single lid" tectonics. In plate tectonics ...

In a 2024 study by the US Geological Survey (USGS), researchers assessed ... AquaterreX’s current projects include locating DSW on the Atacama Plateau (or Atacama Desert) in Chile, an exceptionally ...

A recent Colorado State University study published in the journal Geology demonstrates that climate change can affect the frequency of earthquakes, adding to a small but growing body of evidence ...

At nearly 4 centimeters in length, this crustacean uses specialized raptorial appendages to capture and prey upon smaller amphipod species in the Atacama (Peru-Chile) Trench's food-limited realm.

At nearly 4 centimeters in length, this crustacean uses specialized raptorial appendages to capture and prey upon smaller amphipod species in the Atacama (Peru-Chile) Trench's food-limited realm.