This week, discover the Sahara’s greener past, explore a mysterious cosmological force, marvel at a new concept for space ...

The desert covers over 3.3 million square miles, which means it's roughly the same size as the entire United States.

The researchers managed to extract DNA from the teeth and bones from two of the burials. They found that as humans migrated ...

A new study reconstructing the Arabian Peninsula’s ancient past adds clues to how early humans left the African continent.

Two 7,000-year-old mummies from the Takarkori rock shelter in the Sahara have been found to be from a group with a previously ...

According to genomic analyses, the Takarkori rock shelter women came from a unique North African lineage that diverged from ...

THE MET Office has released a satellite image showing a cloud of Saharan dust particles hovering over the UK. Some may have ...

A Yorkshire man who is set to attempt what has been dubbed "the toughest foot race on earth" said he was doing it to raise ...

The Sahara Desert is the largest hot desert on Earth ... Chad and Sudan - and has a mix of landscapes that go far beyond endless sand dunes. In fact, only a quarter of the Sahara is made up ...

Editor’s note: A version of this story appeared in CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. Picture the Sahara, and an inhospitable landscape of ...

For the first time in a couple of years, a plume of dust and sand from the largest desert on Earth has descended on the north ...