The Atacama Desert harbors unique desert life with diverse microbes.New techniques separate genetic material in low-biomass ...

The Atacama Desert, which runs along the Pacific Coast in Chile, is the driest place on the planet and, largely because of ...

There's a 2-mile-long crack in the desert of Arizona. At 10 feet wide and up to 30 feet deep in some parts, it is the largest of its kind. It continues to grow. Follow BI Video: On Twitter More ...

Heat and swirls of dust above the cracked earth of northwestern Nevada make ... the road and onto the dried lake bed of the Black Rock Desert in search of a rocket launch. On the horizon he ...

In the vast, serene deserts of Ethiopia, something remarkable has been happening since 2005—a 35-mile-long crack, known as ...

The area also receives less than 2.5 inches (6.4 centimeters) of precipitation each year — making it a polar desert, according to NASA's Earth Observatory. As a result, only 144 people live on ...

Lakes have appeared in the Sahara after a cyclone brought a deluge of rain to northern Africa that drenched swathes of the largest hot desert on Earth, satellite images show. An extratropical ...

Normally deserts can be identified in Earth's geological history, but star dunes were absent until now. Prof Duller says this may be because they are so large that experts did not realise they ...

A new technique allows researchers to separate external and internal DNA to identify microbes colonizing the hostile environment of the Atacama Desert.