Deserts, defined by low rainfall and arid climates, cover nearly one-third of the planet’s land surface, shaping both ...

The Sahara Desert, the largest hot desert in the world, stretches across 9 million square kilometers of land, but what’s hiding beneath its golden sands? For centuries, the vast, inhospitable ...

Construction of the world's largest telescope moves forward with progress of the dome and housing for the primary mirror.

The Empty Quarter, or Rub’ al-Khali in Arabic, is one of the world’s largest deserts. Spanning nearly 650,000 square kilometers—mainly in Saudi Arabia—it dominates the Arabian Peninsula ...

An international team has sequenced the first ancient genomes from the so-called Green Sahara, a period when the largest desert in the world temporarily turned into a humid savanna-like ...

According to the World Atlas of Desertification (WAD), deserts, defined as hyper-arid zones with minimal rainfall, make up ...