After years of planning, bikepackers and gravel grinders will have a chance to ride from Mexico to Canada on the Great Plains ...

The End-Permian mass extinction killed an estimated 80% of life on Earth, but new research suggests that plants might have ...

A big part of Arrakis' identity in the fictional world of Dune Awakening is its nature as an inhospitable desert biome.

This year marks the 25th year since the Ironwood Forest National Monument was proclaimed in June of 2000. The Monument boundary includes 189,000 acres of natural Sonoran Desert and includes ...

Analysis of Moroccan stalagmites reveals that the Sahara received increased rainfall between 8,700 and 4,300 years ago, ...

At the Imperial Valley Desert Museum our mission: is to preserve, interpret, and celebrate the deserts of Southern California ...

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

"It feels like something out of science fiction," said European Southern Observatory astrophysicist Julia Victoria Seidel.

President Trump wants rare-earth minerals deal to help the US recoup its support to Ukraine. He's said it's about 'raw earth.

In sun-scorched expanse of Big Bend National Park, where the Chihuahuan Desert stretches seemingly endlessly, Deb Manley was lying on her stomach, peering at the ground. What she saw was no ...