This 1920s film captures the diverse life, cultures, and landscapes of Africa, ranging from bustling town streets to the vast desert. Town scenes showcase women, children, and donkeys navigating ...

Many of these microbes hold clues about survival on an increasingly arid Earth, as well as the potential for life beyond it. A top-to-bottom desert adventure provides the chance to admire and ...

The word Namib means something like "the place where there is nothing" or simply "wide open space"—not entirely accurate, because in the Namib Desert on the southwest coast of Africa ...

Scientists recently identified peculiar micro-burrows in marble and limestone formations in Namibia, Oman, and Saudi Arabia, which may be remnants of an unknown life ... in the dry desert climate ...

This post was updated Oct. 31 at 8:19 p.m. The crowd was anything but barren when listening to Forrest Gander read his work about life in a desert. Gander, an author and an emeritus chancellor for ...

Unfortunately, however, fans hoping for such signs of life on desert worlds will probably be disappointed — at least, that's according to recent research conducted by NASA. The barren ...

3 Friends Found a Crumbling Resort in California and Brought It (and an Entire Town) Back to Life A once-glamorous resort was rusting away in the California desert. Then, three friends brought it ...

In the desert areas of Namibia, Oman, and Saudi Arabia, research work has revealed unusual structures that are probably due to the activity of an unknown microbiological life form. Unusually small ...

The “Dinos in the Desert” exhibit fills the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum with 10 different dinosaur and pterosaur installations spread throughout the museum grounds. Until April 27, life-size ...