Did you know the largest desert in the world isn’t hot? It’s cold! Surprised? A desert doesn’t need to be sandy—it just has to be very dry. Antarctica is the largest desert on Earth.

Sci-fi fanatics' dreamland, the Atacama desert in Chile is the driest desert in the world. Think salt flats, mesmerizing flower fields, volcanoes, and alien-like rock formations under some of the ...

This is not one of the giant worms of Arrakis in Frank Herbert’s sci-fi epic, Dune. Rather, it’s an enigmatic and tiny mammal ...

Coming up in Arts & Life: Martin Zeilig speaks with the creators of Porcelain War, a documentary filmed during the first 18 ...

Chile's Atacama Desert is home to some of the best Earth-based observatories, though an energy company is throwing a wrench ...