Renowned as one of the driest places on the planet outside of the polar regions, this desert owes its extreme dryness to its ...

The miners had been trapped since Aug. 5, when a cave-in occurred at the San José copper–gold mine in the Atacama Desert in ...

Ancient geoglyphs in Chile's Atacama Desert face threats from vehicles and mining, risking irreversible damage. Learn about ...

A collection of gigantic artworks carved into the Atacama Desert centuries ago has been destroyed by thunderous parades of ...

To reach the Atacama Desert, an adventure begins at the nearest major airport in Calama. From there, you have the option to ...

The Atacama Desert in Chile is one of the driest places on Earth, ensuring clear skies for most of the year. This unique ...

As hundreds of motorists take to the desert, their tracks damage the massive geoglyphs made by Indigenous groups in northern ...

Chile has failed to stop cars driving over the large designs etched into the rock of this vast landscape. Aerial images this ...

Galaxies as orderly as the Milky Way weren't supposed to exist more than 10 billion years ago. Now astronomers have found one ...

"The damage is irreversible," said one archaeologist about ruts left by off-roaders in the Nazca Lines-esque art.

Illegal off-road racers in the Atacama Desert are blamed for the destruction of 3,000-year-old art that was also damaged by ...

Researchers have discovered the most distant Milky-Way-like galaxy yet observed. Dubbed REBELS-25, this disk galaxy seems as ...