The Largest Hot Desert When imagining the vastness of the world, the Sahara Desert often stands out. 2 million square ...

On the expansive, barren plains of the Nullarbor in Australia ... It appeared as a giant "scar," standing out from the desert landscape unnaturally. The discovery piqued the interest of scientists ...

Dead Vlei, a white clay pan situated near the famous salt pan of Sossusvlei, is in fact the world’s oldest desert. Located in ...

Lurking in the barren Atacama Desert, a colossal machine nears completion—one that could rewrite our understanding of the cosmos. The Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), now 60% complete ...

Around five million years ago, an extraordinary and dramatic event occurred when a massive flood filled the Mediterranean Sea.As per Earth.com, unlike a regular flood, this was a huge surge of water ...

The barren, parched landscape of Arrakis, where the central plot of "Dune" takes place, is teeming with thousands of deadly sandworms that live in the desert. However, even on desert planets in so ...

Through these painstaking efforts, the research painted a picture of Engaji Nanyori as a dry, semi-desert environment, with little water and few plants. But the landscape hadn’t always been that ...

A sun-swept corner of the Painted Desert draws more than 600,000 visitors ... Where you now see ravens soaring over a stark landscape, leathery-winged pterosaurs once glided over rivers teeming ...