Picture taken at one of the sites inspected in the hyperarid core of the Atacama Desert. Note the Petri plates with different growing media placed on top of the soil surface. Disclaimer ...

Researchers in Spain have investigated how climate change may possibly impact solar power generation in the world’s region with the highest solar radiation levels – the Atacama desert in ...

As per the latest development, a new research has unveiled a rich microbial ‘biosphere’ thriving 13 ft beneath the desolate expanse of Chile's Atacama Desert. This remarkable discovery sheds ...

ON A MAY MORNING two pickup trucks passed through the quiet town of San Pedro in Chile’s Atacama Desert and headed up a mountainside on a dirt road. It was 1994, and the five men inside the ...

The Paranal Observatory in the Atacama Desert. Image: wikimedia commons The PV complex consists of 18,565 bifacial panels installed on trackers, distributed over 7.2 hectares of land, with a plant ...