The Sahara is often thought of as the driest desert in the world, but there is in fact a desert that is even older and more arid, with some parts receiving absolutely no rain at all for 200 million ye ...

They have opened up a whole new way to see this desert. In the southwest part of Libya, a region called Fezzan is the beating heart of the Sahara, an inaccessible place full of sand seas ...

A giant patch of black, fossilized lava that was spewed across the Sahara desert over millions of years ... This model also selected pixels where patches of sand that have settled in between ...

Water rushing between the sand dunes of southern Morocco. In desert communities frequented ... have given a different face to the Moroccan Sahara, better known for its frequent droughts.

I brought some Sahara sand home and have it in a perfume bottle on my desk to remind me of my short time among the dunes. It’s the desert base camp to which I wish to return in Morocco.