This 2023 astronaut photo shows a series of slowly moving "star dunes" in the Erg Chebbi region of Morocco. Most of these ...

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 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 ...

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.

Satellite imagery provides a unique perspective on our planet and can encompass a wide ... Every week, we take a bird's eye view of Earth, and see how it affects the people living on it.

Dust from the Sahara desert travels to underwater caves in ... “On a daily basis, humans are moving more sediment than every river on planet earth,” says Mark Williams, a professor of ...

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 ...

Earth, our home planet, is a world unlike any other. The third planet from the sun, Earth is the only place in the known universe confirmed to host life. With a radius of 3,959 miles, Earth is the ...

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 ...

the fourth planet from the sun could have been mistaken for Earth’s smaller twin, with liquid water on its surface—and maybe even life. Now, the world is a cold, barren desert with few signs ...