In our modern day of safe cities and designated hiking trails, very few places seem as unsafe to us as the middle of the ...

In a striking image recently shared by theEuropean Space Agency (ESA), a landscape of Saudi Arabia’s barren desert reveals ...

A team of paleontologists led by National Geographic Explorer Paul Sereno uncovered a trove of dinosaur fossils in the Sahara ...

Understanding the similarities and differences of the deserts on Earth and Mars will help space travelers survive future missions to the red planet.

Many food deserts are urban, low-income areas that do not provide incentive for grocers to open a new market in the ...

On that day, I learned an essential rule of fieldwork in the desert: Don’t forget a shovel. Otherwise, if your vehicle gets stuck, as ours did, you’ll have to dig it out by hand.

After making decent – if bumpy – progress, we pulled off onto the sand flats and drove slowly toward the dunes, worried we might get stuck in the sand. Having arrived on the outskirts of the Algodones ...