The Atacama Desert harbors unique desert life with diverse microbes.New techniques separate genetic material in low-biomass ...

A new technique allows researchers to separate external and internal DNA to identify microbes colonizing the hostile environment of the Atacama Desert.

Lakes appearing in the Sahara desert captured in satellite images ... Hannah Osborne is the planet Earth and animals editor at Live Science. Prior to Live Science, she worked for several years ...

Normally deserts can be identified in Earth's geological history, but star dunes were absent until now. Prof Duller says this may be because they are so large that experts did not realise they ...

From petrified forests to a fiery crater burning for 50+ years, these eight geological phenomena reveal Earth's mysterious ...

A 2010 satellite image shows dozens of golden islands covered with strange parallel lines shining among the shallow waters of a massive, half-full ephemeral lake in Australia's Great Sandy Desert.

Now, the world is a cold, barren desert ... a full 138 degrees colder than Earth’s average temperature. Once upon a time, though, wind and water flowed across the red planet.

A collection-based survey of lichen species at the Mars Desert Research Station in Utah ... and almost certainly every land mass on planet Earth; some species have even survived exposure to ...