They’re not a perfect match, but it’s way too hot on the first planet for us to hop over and confirm for ourselves.

The Largest Hot Desert When imagining the vastness of the world, the Sahara Desert often stands out. 2 million square kilometers, it ranks as the largest hot desert on our planet. To give you a ...

The Sebeiba festival, a 3,000-year-old tradition of the Tuareg people, takes center stage in Djanet, an Algerian oasis town ...

Defining desert conditions as about four inches or less of rainfall per year, they found that from 1920 to 2013, the Sahara expanded by about 270,000 square miles.

(CNN) — Striking images from the Sahara Desert show large lakes etched into rolling sand dunes after one of the most arid, barren places in the world was hit with its first floods in decades ...

Some parts of the Sahara Desert will see five times their average August and September rainfall. A few areas could experience rain for the first time on record in August or September.

A NASA false-color satellite image shows parts of the Sahara Desert in Morocco and Algeria on August 14, 2024. The second image shows the same area on September 10, ...

The Sahara Desert flooded for the first time in decades. Here’s what it looks like By Laura Paddison, CNN 2 minute read Updated 9:52 AM EDT, Mon October 14, 2024 Link Copied! ...