The Sahara is the world’s largest hot desert. It spans across 11 countries in northern Africa: Algeria, Chad, Egypt, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Western Sahara, Sudan and Tunisia.

An old NASA satellite that studied the sun for more than a decade fell to Earth over the Sahara Desert, the space agency reported Thursday. NASA officials said they have received no reports of ...

It's known as one of the driest places on our planet. But shocking before and after images show exactly what happened when the Sahara Desert was struck by its biggest deluge for decades. The ...

12:58, Sat, Jun 28, 2025 Updated: 13:02, Sat, Jun 28, 2025 When someone thinks of a desert, there is usually one that springs to mind straight away, the Sahara. The African desert is massive, in ...

Large scale wind and solar farms in the Sahara could power the planet and turn the desert green. (Luca Galuzzi; Creative Commons Share Alike 2.5 ) ...

In June 2020, a record-breaking cloud of Sahara dust smothered the Caribbean. The size and concentration of the plume hadn't been seen in half a century, prompting forecasters to nickname it the ...

Researchers suspect that two meteorites found in the Sahara Desert in 2023 may originally have come from Mercury, which would ...

Errachidia, a desert city in southeast Morocco, recorded nearly 3 inches of rainfall, most of it across just two days last month. That’s more than four times the normal rainfall for the whole ...

N.B. woman to hike Sahara desert in support of affordable housing project By Shelley Steeves Global News Posted January 6, 2023 4:55 pm Updated January 6, 2023 6:17 pm ...

The Sahara does experience rain, but usually just a few inches a year and rarely in late summer. Over two days in September, however, intense rain fell in parts of the desert in southeast Morocco, ...