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

About 7,000 years ago, in the Sahara, two women were buried in a rock shelter in what is now southwestern Libya. At the time, ...

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

Currently a harsh, arid sandscape, it's hard to believe the Sahara was once studded with sparkling water bodies that ...

An international team led by researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, has ...

The Sahara Desert is one of Earth's most arid and desolate places, stretching across a swathe of North Africa that spans ...

In the Mauritanian desert, nomadic herders look for unusual rocks with a dark surface, hoping to find rare meteorites and strike it big.

A Newport grandfather in his seventy’s has completed a 100k trek across the Sahara Desert in memory of his great grandson.

The Sahara Desert is one of the driest and most barren ... it was a lush green savannah rich in bodies of water and teeming with life. And, according to DNA obtained from the remains of two ...

Sahara Desert, Once Lush and Green ... it was a lush green savannah rich in bodies of water and teeming with life. And, according to DNA obtained from the remains of two individuals who lived ...