In our modern day of safe cities and designated hiking trails, very few places seem as unsafe to us as the middle of the ...

Very few meteorites from this planet ever reach Earth and none have been scientifically proven. A study investigated two ...

A team of paleontologists led by National Geographic Explorer Paul Sereno uncovered a trove of dinosaur fossils in the Sahara ...

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 ...

Discover how Africa is combatting the encroachment of the Sahara Desert in this insightful video. - **0:00** Introduction - * ...

THE Sahara, comparable in size to the United States, is essentially a land of minerals. Plants, animals and men, all live there artificially. The vast spaces, the heat, the lack of water and ...

If we covered the entire Sahara Desert with solar panels—even just 1–2% of it—we could theoretically generate enough electricity to power the entire planet several times over.

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.

A massive cloud of dust from the Sahara Desert blanketed most of the Caribbean on Monday in the biggest event of its kind this year as it heads toward the United States.

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

Located in the Sahara Desert, Tassili n'Ajjer National Park is the main draw for tourists here. Algeria, the largest country in Africa, has long struggled to attract tourists to its desert landscape.

The Sahara Desert is one of Earth’s most arid and desolate places, stretching across a swathe of North Africa that spans parts of 11 countries and covers an area comparable to China or the ...