The first snow in Sahara in 37 years has been documented by NASA, which took gorgeous photos from up above.

In a week of weather disasters, a sprinkling of snow in the Sahara desert was an unexpected bright spot. The freak flurry covered parts of the desert with up to 15 inches of snow on Sunday, The ...

Ain Sefra is located in northwest Algeria about 220 miles (350 km) south of the Mediterranean sea, and right on the northern hub of the Sahara desert. Bouchetata said he was “stunned” to see ...

Pictures taken by an amateur photographer Monday show the dunes of the Sahara Desert covered with a dusting of snow. In the photos, the white contrasts with the crests of orange sand after just ...

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.

Sahara dust colors the evening sky, glittering crystals shimmer in detail – This week, our gallery photographers once again show diversity.

A Tuareg nomad stands near a 13th-century mosque in Timbuktu, Mali, March 19, 2004. Just as Timbuktu with its exotic staccato name is part of the lore of the Sahara, this same mystery cloaks the ...

Some 100 million tons of dust from the Sahara Desert blow out over the Atlantic Ocean each year — enough to be visible in satellite photos. A plume is expected to reach Texas this week.

These incredible pictures show ice-covered sand dunes in the Sahara Desert after temperatures plummeted below freezing. Karim Bouchetata took the staggering pictures of the icy landscape near the ...

The pictures are from Ain Sefra town, situated in the northwestern region of Algeria, where the temperature fell to -2 degrees earlier this week. Sand dunes in the Sahara desert were clad in a ...