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

Sahara Desert teemed with life during African Humid Period. Scientists have reconstructed the genetic profile of a population ...

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

They have opened up a whole new way to see this desert. In the southwest part of Libya, a region called Fezzan is the beating heart of the Sahara, an inaccessible place full of sand seas ...

The Sahara Desert is on the far eastern edge of Morocco. You can actually see the border of Algeria from your camp! The name ...

April 4 (Reuters) - 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 ...

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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.

A new map published on social media by the Met Office shows a huge swathe of Saharan dust particles bound for the UK. If you ...

A satellite image of a cloud of Saharan dust particles hovering over the UK has been released by the Met Office. The national ...

Picture the Sahara, and an inhospitable landscape of endless sand dunes and barren rock comes to mind. That’s largely the case today, but 7,000 years ago the vast desert was an altogether ...