The Atacama Desert in northern Chile offers an extraordinary travel experience that captivates adventurers, astronomers and nature enthusiasts alike. With its extreme altitude, crystal-clear skies and ...

The Atacama Desert, stretching across Chile and into Argentina’s Puna region, blends otherworldly scenery, rich history, and extreme natural beauty. From vast salt flats and flamingo-filled lagoons to ...

Following a rare superbloom event, Desierto Florido National Park was created to safeguard nearly 200 flower species—and many other scientific marvels—in the Atacama Desert. Thousands of wildflowers ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Brianna Randall writes about the intersection of travel and science. The Valle de la Muerte (Death Valley) near San Pedro de ...

For the first time, the Amazon basin could be identified as dominant source region for water precipitating in the Atacama Desert in northern Chile. From the rainforest, elevated water vapour travels ...

A cold, bloodless dawn breaks above the Andes, the yolk of a white sun spilling out across the Atacama Desert ahead. I’m standing next to the ruins of a shepherd’s hut, 13,800ft above sea level. This ...

Confession: It never occurred to me, until I was in my fifth decade, that flamingos can fly. I knew they had wings – famously handy appendages when it comes to flight – but I never clocked that the ...

A newly discovered comet has astronomers excited, with the potential to be a spectacular sight in early April. C/2026 A1 (MAPS) was spotted by a team of four amateur astronomers with a remotely ...

Licancabur Volcano is, to the Indigenous Lican Antay community of northern Chile, a sacred deity known as “the people’s mountain.” For the all-inclusive adventure lodge Tierra Atacama, located in San ...