Researchers suspect that two meteorites found in the Sahara Desert in 2023 may originally have come from Mercury, which would make them the first identified fragments of the solar system’s innermost ...

A thick plume of sand and dust from the Sahara Desert is seen in these images blowing from the west coast of Africa across the Atlantic Ocean.

The Sahara desert The Sahara Desert is the world’s largest hot desert, located in northern Africa. The climate is hot and dry, with temperatures recorded as high as 50°C.

Sahara Desert in Africa was once full of trees, had rivers, but became desert due to… Ancient rock paintings and archaeological findings support the claim that life once thrived in Sahara.

Lakes appearing in the Sahara desert captured in satellite images after a cyclone dumped a years' worth of rain on northern Africa in just a few days.

Dust from the Sahara Desert, once a massive lake, travels across the Atlantic Ocean. This dust, rich in potassium and iron from dead diatoms, fertilizes the Amazon rainforest. The Amazon River then ...

Dust from the Sahara Desert is moving across the Atlantic Ocean and could make skies hazy over the southern United States in early June.

Africa's biggest country that's 90 percent Sahara Desert and almost totally empty Unsurprisingly this largely untouched country is rich in natural resources and boasts seven UNESCO World Heritage ...

The arid region sometimes develops lakes after heavy rain, hinting at how the desert may have once had a different climate.

Africa has nine deserts in total but none are arguably as famous as the Sahara. The Sahara is the largest hot desert on Earth, covering 3.5 million square miles - an area roughly the size of the ...