This striking astronaut photo shows off an "eye-catching" impact crater in the Sahara Desert. The oculus-like structure is ...

A vast expanse of towering sand dunes? The occasional ... of the world’s largest hot desert isn’t actually sandy at all. Just 25 percent of the Sahara’s surface is covered by sand.

But there was one I hadn’t realized I’d need to survive the Sahara: reading sand dunes ... did I realize the allure of dunes. Once I started flying in the desert, I came under its spell ...

The Sahara Desert is on the far eastern edge of Morocco. You can actually see the border of Algeria from your camp! The name ...

Ralph Bagnold, a Cambridge-educated engineer in the British Army, explored the Sinai and Sahara on leave before drafting his 1941 masterwork The Physics of Blown Sand and Desert Dunes, which is ...

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

THERE'S a little-known beach in Italy that looks like the Sahara Desert. With huge golden sands ... of Italy” and has some of the highest sand dunes in Europe. Piscinas is surrounded by ...

The Kalahari Desert has beautiful red sands that provide a scenic backdrop for hikers. This semi-arid area hosts different ...

Picture the Sahara, and an inhospitable landscape of endless sand dunes and barren rock comes to mind. That’s largely the case today, but 7,000 years ago the vast desert was an altogether ...

Water rushing between the sand dunes of southern Morocco. In desert communities frequented ... have given a different face to the Moroccan Sahara, better known for its frequent droughts.

We flew from Beijing to Lanzhou and then drove to a town near the edge of the desert to meet our camel team. We camped in the sand the last night before setting off into the dunes. I didn’t ...