But did you know there are some places on Earth where rain is extremely rare or almost never happens? Let’s take a look at five of the driest places on Earth, where rain never falls. The Atacama ...

The Chinchorro are the very first people that inhabited the Atacama desert in Chile, the driest desert on Earth. Their 5,000-year-old mummies, dating thousands of years before the Egyptians ...

The search for the best observatory site in the world has led to the discovery of what is thought to be the coldest, driest, calmest place on Earth, a place where no human is thought to have ever ...

How should you pack for a journey to the White Continent? Here's what you need to know about essential and non-essential ...

The Atacama has been in a hyperarid state for millions of years Even in the driest places on Earth there is life eking out an existence, it seems. Scientists have examined the soils in those parts ...

Abuse is rife in "the emptiest, windiest, highest, driest, coldest place on Earth", said Scientific American, and efforts to address it have often left survivors feeling unsupported and unsafe.

For two minutes, I'm so entranced by Licancabur that I forget I have just touched down in one of the driest places on Earth. The orange dust that swirls around me, sticking to my boots and face ...