Researchers suspect that two meteorites found in the Sahara Desert in 2023 may originally have come from Mercury, which would ...

The desert is where the Earth's coldest temperature ever was recorded and some areas haven't seen rain in more than 14 million years.

An unusual deluge has left vibrant blue lagoons amid the palm trees of the Sahara Desert, rejuvenating some drought-stricken areas.

An extratropical cyclone pushed across the northwestern Sahara on September 7th and 8th and drenched large parts of the Maghreb and Sahel.

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.

The Sahara Desert is located in northern Africa because that is the location of a permanent (mostly) area of high pressure.

These lakes in the Sahara Desert show that even the most arid spot has amazing features, such as salt pans, manmade lakes, and historic sites.

The Sahara Desert is green and vegetated every 21,000 years. A climate model shows why.

A pioneering study has shed new light on North African humid periods that have occurred over the past 800,000 years and explains why the Sahara Desert was periodically green.

In May 2020, some unusual rocks containing distinctive greenish crystals were found in the Erg Chech sand sea, a dune-filled region of the Sahara Desert in southern Algeria. On close inspection ...