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

Some of the world's tallest sand dunes are located in the Sahara Desert. These dunes typically feature multiple ridges spreading out like the arms or tips of a star. Despite their prominence ...

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

A woman is taking on a five-day trek across the Sahara Desert in memory of her mother, who died after living with dementia ...

Bechir Belhad sits on Saharan sand dunes. They can live their whole lives ... prospect as we set out into the vastness of the Sahara Desert. Yet with hundreds and hundreds of miles of golden ...

The ancient Saharan city of Chinguetti, a historical hub for poets, scholars, and theologians and home to thousands of ...

An ancient trading post known for housing some of West Africa's most historically significant manuscripts could soon be ...

a dynamic sand dune system, palm grove and a brackish lagoon," states Hello Canaries. "This mix of desert and oasis is at the southern tip of Gran Canaria and is surrounded by the famous ...

This intriguing astronaut photo shows around a dozen giant "star dunes" as they slowly dance across a sandy field near the edge of the Sahara desert ... windswept sand — or erg — covers ...

Residents say the desert is their ... Deserts, including the Sahara, are expanding at unprecedented rates and “sand seas” are being reactivated, with blowing dunes transforming landscapes ...