During a recent trip, travel columnist Scott McMurren enjoyed the country’s history and caught a spectacular Sahara sunrise.

This intriguing astronaut photo shows around a dozen giant "star dunes" as they slowly dance across a sandy field near the ...

Of everything that we did in Morocco, spending a night in a Sahara desert luxury camp (aka going glamping in the Sahara) was ...

This story appears in the November 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. I got my first lesson in the physics of sand dunes in 1998 on an expedition into the Sahara. In order to take aerial ...

Exploring untouched desert landscapes through guided safaris allows you to witness the raw beauty of nature like never before ...

A new study led by the University of Southampton and research institutes in France has uncovered the mystery of how mini sand ...

"The theory of how the large, wavy dunes you might picture in the Sahara Desert form assumes you have near limitless amounts of soft, dry sand which is picked up and deposited by the wind.