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

An asteroid discovered late last year is continuing to stir public interest as its odds of striking planet Earth less than eight ... of the ocean or a vast desert, nothing would happen.

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 ...

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.