This 2023 astronaut photo shows a series of slowly moving "star dunes" in the Erg Chebbi region of Morocco. Most of these ...

A new, record-breaking conveyor belt is changing how sand is transported for hydraulic fracturing across the southwest United ...

This story appears in the October 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine. An ancient wind is coming up from a place called deep time. The Sahara strikes us as an eternal inferno of dunes and ...

Red and as fine as dust, the Sahara’s sand looks just like cinnamon but mysteriously holds its shape as dunes — solid but constantly shifting as it magically defies the laws of physics.

A woman is taking on a five-day trek across the Sahara Desert in memory of her mother, who died after living with dementia for 12 years. Mary-Joy Albutt, from Kidderminster, will hike more than 62 ...

The town of Swakopmund in Namibia is world-famous for its huge desert landscape and giant dunes that create ideal conditions ...

A ‘moon rise’ over the Sahara. We drove in convey for many hours ... Under the moonlight they darted around, skimming over the dunes like something out of Star Wars, scanning the sand ...

Water rushing between the sand dunes of southern Morocco ... August and September have given a different face to the Moroccan Sahara, better known for its frequent droughts.