Two meters below the surface of the Atacama Desert there is an 'oasis' of microorganisms. Researchers found it in hypersaline substrates thanks to SOLID, a detector for signs of life which could be used in environments similar to subsoil on Mars.

A team of researchers from the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History have been racing the clock to extract whale skeletons and other marine fossils from the Atacama Desert Region of northern Chile.

University of Arizona geologist Jay Quade reports that he has discovered a geological process operating in a remote corner of northern Chile's Atacama Desert.

NEWTON, N.C., Oct.

Astronomers have opened up its doors to a new ground-base telescope that will help give scientists a peak at the places that have never been explored.