A rare meteorite recovered from the Sahara Desert contains evidence of a long-lost moon-size world that existed just a few ...

Western Sahara was a Spanish colony from 1884 to 1976. When Spain pulled out Morocco claimed the territory. An armed conflict ...

Learn about a rare meteorite that may have separated from a protoplanet around the size of the Moon 4.5 billion years ago.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (CNN) — Striking images from the Sahara Desert show large lakes etched into rolling sand dunes after one of the most arid, barren ...

The United Nations Mission for the Referendum in the Sahara (MINURSO) has begun implementing a series of organizational ...

Today the Sahara desert is a dry, dusty, sandy land that stretches for millions of miles, but it wasn't always this way. Go back at little as 8,000 years and you'll find it was actually quite wet, ...

The fascinating but little-known history of how the Sahara was transformed from a pleasant green and fertile land into the largest hot desert in the world. Green Sahara. (Collage by Kuat Abeshev.

You’ll find a lot more sand than trees in the Sahara Desert, but that doesn’t mean they don’t occasionally crop up. Here’s the story of the Tree of Ténéré, as well as a couple other famous trees found ...

If you're taking a day trip to the Sahara Desert in North Africa, you're going to want to bring a lot of water and plenty of sunscreen. But if you're planning to stay the night, then you better bring ...

The Sahara Desert may be millions of years older than scientists thought, researchers report in the Sept. 18 Nature. The team’s climate reconstruction suggests that the desert formed 7 million years ...