NASA is stress-testing new Mars exploration tech in Earth's harshest deserts, revealing surprising insights into how future ...

Flamingos feed in Laguna Chaxa, a salt-rich lagoon in Chile’s Atacama Desert. It’s a location that flamingos have adapted to live in over millennia. But each year, is still a struggle. November 2024.

For decades, scientists have puzzled over why Earth stayed warm and alive while Mars turned cold and dry. Both planets began with similar ingredients—rocky surfaces, carbon, water, and sunlight—but ...

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A 2023 astronaut photo shows three dark hills, or mesas, towering above part of the Sahara desert in southern Mauritania. The ...

The Atacama Desert—an arid, unpopulated swath of northern Chile that is home to some of the most perceptive ground telescopes on Earth—is actually teeming with life beneath the ground, according to a ...

Earth’s driest ecosystems are a study in extremes: They can be blazingly hot stretches of sand like the Sahara Desert or shatteringly cold expanses of ice such as those in Greenland and Antarctica.

The world’s hot deserts are some of the most inhospitable places on the planet during the summer months. Despite the hazards, millions of travellers brave these brutal conditions every year and hop ...

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The Sahara is the world's most famous desert, a land of rolling dunes through which camel caravans once roamed from Marrakech to Timbuktu and beyond. At roughly 3.3 million square miles, and occupying ...

Where there’s a tree, there’s usually a forest. But not always. A biologist describes some of the loneliest trees on planet Earth. When we think about isolation in nature, we usually picture islands ...