This 2013 astronaut photo shows a giant eye-shaped impact crater in the Sahara Desert that is slowly being circled by ...

In a stunning twist of nature, one of the world’s driest and most unforgiving landscapes, the Sahara Desert, has experienced ...

In an unprecedented turn of events, regions of the Sahara Desert have been inundated by severe rainstorms. This unusual ...

The essential ingredient for life, water, appeared on both planets around 4.4 billion years ago, new research indicates.

Hiking to the hot springs oasis in Tunisia's Sahara Desert is a once-in-a-lifetime experience. This trek showcases the stark ...

The presence of hot liquid water during early magmatic activity on Mars supports the idea that suitable conditions for the ...

Sarah Dawson, of Nuneaton, Warwickshire, joined a group of 20 people to endure blistering conditions during the 100km (62 ...

If you didn’t know the context, pictures of the Sahara Desert from the edge of space could easily be mistaken for the surface of Mars instead. The western edge of the African desert is caked in ...

Many migrants make the treacherous journey in the hope of a better life in Europe Survivors say 44 people have died of thirst after their truck broke down in the Sahara Desert in northern Niger ...

Paleoclimate and archaeological evidence tells us that, 11,000-5,000 years ago, the Earth's slow orbital 'wobble' transformed today's Sahara desert to a land covered with vegetation and lakes.

Africa's Sahara Desert may be considered a vast expanse of barren sand with limited vegetation, an extreme environment for plants and animals to thrive, but life always finds a way. Indeed ...

David Mattingly heads a team of scholars on the Desert Migrations Project, whose work takes us to prehistory. They are time travelers who use four-wheel-drive vehicles to navigate the Sahara ...