An "incredibly rare" piece of rock from Mars has sold for £3.2million after being discovered in the Sahara desert. The 24.5kg meteorite is the largest piece of Mars on Earth. The rock travelled ...

Two meteorites found in the Sahara in 2023 might be from Mercury, a study suggests, but doubts remain due to how little is ...

Very few meteorites from this planet ever reach Earth and none have been scientifically proven. A study investigated two ...

A group of scientists have published a paper describing two meteorites that were found in the Sahara Desert. They believe the ...

A huge and “incredibly rare” chunk of Mars that crash-landed in the Sahara will go on sale for nearly $2m at auction. Sotheby ...

The Sebeiba festival, a 3,000-year-old tradition of the Tuareg people, takes center stage in Djanet, an Algerian oasis town ...

This meteorite, affectionately dubbed NWA 16788, isn’t just any space rock, though. At a stunning $5.3 million, not only did it fetch the highest price of any meteorite ever, it’s also the largest, ...

Why it's incredible: The valley holds hundreds of primitive whale skeletons, some of which have "feet." Whale Valley is a ...

The Sahara is the largest hot desert in the world, equal in size to China or the United States. Yet, this arid expanse was once a verdant, pleasant land, fed by rivers and lakes.

Out in the Sahara Desert, in one of the most inhospitable environments imaginable, a natural solution to the climate crisis is growing ­– and at a rapid rate. London-based startup Brilliant ...