It may be the gateway to the vast Sahara desert, but that doesn't mean it's free of that modern scourge of the ...

This intriguing astronaut photo shows around a dozen giant "star dunes" as they slowly dance across a sandy field near the ...

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

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

The Sahara desert, once lush and green ... 15,000-year-old foragers that lived during the Ice Age in Taforalt Cave, Morocco. Researchers also traced the mummies' Neandertal ancestry and found ...