Found in northern Chile, the arid core of the Atacama Desert hadn’t experienced rain for the past 500 years. But three years ago, rain started to fall once again in the region.

Snow covered Atacama desert in Chile, offering a rare sight of winter in a place where rainfall is nonexistent and skies are normally clear.

The Atacama Desert in northern Chile is one of the driest places in the world other than the poles. It’s about the size of Cuba, but sometimes receives just a millimeter of rain per year, making ...

Studying the effects of once-in-a-century rainfall in the hyperarid core of the Atacama Desert in Chile, a team of astrobiologists found that instead of causing a bloom of growth, the unexpected ...

A rainbow shines over the Atacama after recent rain (Picture: CEN) But it rained in 2015 and 2017, with a severity the area had not experienced for hundreds of years, it is believed.

Chile's Atacama Desert, the driest nonpolar desert on Earth, stretches across a roughly 600-mile (1,000 kilometers) tract of land wedged between the coastal Cordillera de la Costa mountain range ...

The Atacama Desert in Northern Chile is the driest desert on Earth. The only life there is microbial, and researchers study it to get an idea of what we might find on Mars.

Atacama Region, Chile (27.6°S 70.5°W), 09 Mar 2023 Atacama Region, Chile (27.6°S 70.5°W), 09 Mar 2023 The Atacama Desert is a desert plateau in South America covering a 1,600 km (990 mi) strip ...

Northern Chile’s Atacama Desert is the driest desert in the world. It’s also a traveler’s delight with rock canyons, snow-capped volcanoes, geysers and turquoise lakes.

San Pedro de Atacama, the desert’s tourist hub, is an isolated hot spot of human hustle. Every evening I was there, a wind kicked up before sunset and dropped off as soon as darkness fell.