This 2013 astronaut photo shows a giant eye-shaped impact crater in the Sahara Desert that is slowly being circled by ...

Sahara Desert into a vast savannah, where both people and animals lived in great numbers. Today we still know very little ...

The Taklamakan Desert in China is now surrounded by a 1900-mile green belt to prevent sandstorms and protect local ...

A new analysis found that the mass die-off in 2020 was likely tied to toxic algae in watering holes. The blue-green algae, ...

Africa's Sahara Desert may be considered a vast expanse of barren sand with limited vegetation, an extreme environment for plants and animals to thrive, but life always finds a way. Indeed ...

Camels withstand desert heat with water-storing humps and the ability to regulate body temperature efficiently. These ants ...

The optimal time for fossil hunting in Morocco's Sahara Desert is between October and April, when temperatures are more manageable. During these months, daytime temperatures are pleasant for ...

Satellite images reveal ample water filling desert lakes that are usually bone dry for years at a time Heavy rains that drenched portions of the Sahara Desert this past summer filled lakes in ...

If you didn’t know the context, pictures of the Sahara Desert from the edge of space could easily be mistaken for the surface of Mars instead. The western edge of the African desert is caked in ...