In a rare occurrence, heavy rainfall hit the Sahara Desert this month and was captured on satellite imagery showing the unusual weather conditions cast over one the driest regions on the planet.

Rare storms temporarily create lakes in the Sahara desert, revealing surprising moisture pathways and climate connections.

In a stunning twist of nature, one of the world's driest and most unforgiving landscapes, the Sahara Desert, has experienced ... been bone-dry for 50 years. Satellite imagery from NASA vividly ...

It snowed on December 19 in the Sahara Desert, and NASA's Landsat 7 satellite was there (or rather, hundreds of miles overhead) to see it. The photo comes from Landsat 7's Enhanced Thematic Mapper ...

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 a land covered with vegetation and lakes.