This desert holds the record for the hottest earth-bound temperature ever documented ... balance that sustains life across our planet. The Sahara’s gift of life to distant lands underscores ...

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 ... that our planet experiences as a result ...

This intriguing astronaut photo shows around a dozen giant "star dunes" as they slowly dance across a sandy field near the edge of the Sahara desert ... to NASA's Earth Observatory.

The Sahara Desert, located in West Africa ... of rain to regions that hardly receive any, according to NASA's Earth Observatory. "What's also fascinating is that normally dry lakes in the Sahara ...

I now realise how naïve that was. Like every ecosystem on Earth, the Sahara is a beautiful and delicate balance of nature. Desert ecosystems host surprisingly high biodiversity and, because they ...

Stretching across northern Chile and southern Peru, the Atacama is the driest non-polar desert on the planet. With its "Martian landscapes" and sprawling salt flats, the arid "geographical ...

Earth is our home planet, and it's the only place in the universe where we know for certain that life exists. Earth formed over 4.5 billion years ago from a swirling cloud of gas and dust squished ...