D eserts are too quickly dismissed as hostile environments. Hot, dry, and uninviting, it's often difficult to imagine how a ...

We begin in the oldest desert on earth – the Namib, in south western Africa. A pair of ostriches raise their family in the searing heat to keep them safe from predators – but time is ticking as the ...

A satellite photo from July shows intricate snowy stripes painted across the Atacama Desert in Chile. The icy weather temporarily put the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) ...

Earth’s driest ecosystems are a study in extremes: They can be blazingly hot stretches of sand like the Sahara Desert or shatteringly cold expanses of ice such as those in Greenland and Antarctica.

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The sunniest spot on Earth is the Altiplano of the Atacama Desert, an arid plateau near the Andes mountains in Chile that receives as much sunshine as Venus. While normally cold and dry, this sunny ...

NASA is taking its newest Mars exploration technologies out of the lab and into Earth's most brutal deserts, pushing drones, walking robots and experimental flyers through scorching heat, shifting ...

Mars changed from a blue world with water to a red desert because its atmosphere escaped into space over billions of years.

The Sahara is the world's most famous desert, a land of rolling dunes through which camel caravans once roamed from Marrakech to Timbuktu and beyond. At roughly 3.3 million square miles, and occupying ...