When viewed from above, the Eye of the Sahara looks just like an enormous impact crater sitting in the middle of the Sahara Desert of Mauritania. Stretching 50 kilometers (30 miles) in diameter ...

The Eye of the Sahara is a geological marvel, but it also holds archaeological significance, according to Geographical, a magazine published by the U.K.'s Royal Geographical Society.

Researchers suspect that two meteorites found in the Sahara Desert in 2023 may originally have come from Mercury, which would make them the first identified fragments of the solar system’s ...

The Aorounga structure is surrounded by dark ridges, known as yardangs, that cover this part of the Sahara. (Image credit: ESA/NASA) A group of five barchan, or "horned," sand dunes can be seen in ...

CAIRO (Jared Collins/CNN Newsource/WKRC) - Researchers have discovered two meteorites in the Sahara Desert that they believe may have originated from Mercury.

The Sahara is the world’s largest non-polar desert, stretching across 3.6 million square miles.