This hot desert area has not seen rain in five centuries and it’s so dry it’s gained a reputation for its record-breaking ...

Astronomers have discovered a powerful jet stream raging through the atmosphere of an ultra-hot Jupiter exoplanet ravaged by ...

It seems like merely a fact of life on the West Coast that summers are dry. But compared to most of the rest of the country ...

the Atacama receives 50 times less rain than Death Valley in California. In some regions, rainfall has never been measured since records began, a peculiarity due to the location of the desert ...

Some 3,800 years ago a massive 9.5-magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami with waves as high as 20 metres (66 feet) slammed the coastline of Chile’s Atacama Desert, the world’s driest ...

But the historic rainfall has turned the Atacama Desert, which is the driest place on Earth, into a flowering oasis. "The Atacama region was punished, but also blessed by the phenomenon of a ...

A place that receives less than 10 inches (25 centimeters) of rain per year is considered ... The driest deserts, such as Chile's Atacama Desert, have parts that receive less than ...

As night falls on the Atacama desert in northern Chile four giant telescopes turn their gaze towards the star-strewn heavens. The driest place on Earth is the best place to observe the universe ...