A stunning seaside city is one of the driest places on earth, seeing less than a centimetre of rain annually. Arica, a port city in northern Chile, is part of the Atacama Desert, the driest non ...

In contrast, the driest place on Earth is the Atacama Desert in Chile, which is renowned for its extreme aridity. It receives less than 1mm of rain each year, making it even drier than the polar ...

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 ...

Receiving just 0.5 millimetres of rainfall per year on average, the Atacama receives 50 times less rain ... to the desert, but Chile, Peru and Bolivia were all the more interested, and after ...

The dark skies of Chile's Atacama Desert are perfect for skywatching, especially when a parade of six planets and a comet grace the night sky all at once. In February 2025, conditions were just ...

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 ...

The body of a 60-year-old British astronomer and professor was found in the Chilean desert two months after he went missing ... Southern Observatory in the Atacama Desert, a "facility he had ...