The Sahara Desert is one of Earth's most arid and desolate places, stretching across a swathe of North Africa that spans parts of 11 countries and covers an area comparable to China or the United ...

A new study reconstructing the Arabian Peninsula’s ancient past adds clues to how early humans left the African continent.

Their analyses revealed the green Sahara individuals likely branched off from the ancestors of sub-Saharan Africans roughly ...

The desert covers over 3.3 million square miles, which means it's roughly the same size as the entire United States.

Mineral deposits in limestone caves in Saudi Arabia show that the now arid Saharo-Arabian Desert experienced increased ...

What happens beneath the Earth’s surface may seem distant, but its effects shape continents, influence ocean circulation, ...

But in the Mauritanian desert, herders have learned what to look ... which researchers believe could contain evidence of water on the Red Planet, were divided among museums, collectors and ...

Rare DNA found in the barrens of the Sahara reveals the ancestral lineage from North Africa with widespread pastoralism ...

April 4 (Reuters) - The Sahara Desert is one of Earth's most arid and ... it was a lush green savannah rich in bodies of water and teeming with life. And, according to DNA obtained from the ...