As the dunes move because of the sun and wind and other effects, often things will rise up from the sand, as what looks like a sand castle has for the summer of 2024.

Famous for its otherworldly desert scenery, Sossusvlei is home to some of the highest sand dunes in the world, with peaks ...

Mysterious castle emerges from deep inside sand dune on North Carolina beach. Can you guess what it is? The castle emerged at Jockey's Ridge in North Carolina's Outer Banks ...

Herbert was haunted by the specter of unstoppable dunes. In Dune, he imagined a desert that swallowed an entire planet—an ...

Using radar scans and analysis of sand grains buried deep inside the star dune, scientists mapped the mound’s internal structure. The researchers calculated that the oldest part of the dune’s ...

A teen died on a North Carolina beach after a sand dune collapsed while he was inside of a hole. The boy became trapped and buried under a mound of sand, the National Parks Service said.

The teenager was inside a hole that was not visible from the beachfront and had been dug in a back-dune area. The seashore stretches over 70 miles and is part of the Outer Banks, a popular tourist ...

A previously unrecognised sedimentary archive in sand dunes could unlock a repository of fire records, a discovery that could expand fire histories across the globe. The research, conducted by Dr ...

The desert’s enormous star dunes are mysterious structures. These sand dunes are found in some of Earth’s largest modern deserts, but also on the planet Mars and Saturn’s largest moon, Titan ...