Scientists have discovered microbial life rebounding in one of the driest and most inhospitable places on Earth.
The notoriously hot and dry Sahara was left coated in a layer of snow following a winter storm on Sunday.
Over 400 unexplained structures have been discovered in the Saudi Arabian desert using Google Earth.
The unknown aircraft, which was being flown by pilot Eric Schultz, went down exactly one week ago.
New research has suggested that humans may have been responsible for the formation of the Sahara.
The local people of Chile's Atacama desert have developed the ability to drink water laced with arsenic.
Discovered in northwestern Montana, this ancient lizard lived in the desert around 75 million years ago.
The unexpected flurry is the first to have been reported in the region for almost four decades.
An unconvincing video of a bipedal creature in the desert has been doing the rounds online this week.
A vast expanse of space totally devoid of new stars has been found at the heart of our own galaxy.
A man and his three kids were left shocked after a swing started moving erratically all on its own.
Diamond miners have found a shipwreck laden with gold after draining a lagoon on Africa’s Skeleton Coast.
Workmen in Saudi Arabia were left scratching their heads when sand started erupting from the ground.
A peculiar structure in the Egyptian desert near Cairo has been generating a lot of speculation online.
Move over Area 51 - the United States now has another, even more secretive base in the Nevada desert.
The peculiar video shows a pint-sized entity wandering around on a deserted city street after dark.
NASA's Curiosity rover has photographed a huge wall of sand on the edge of the Martian desert.
Some of the mysterious geometric shapes in the deserts of the Middle East are over 8,500 years old.
Scientists in China have discovered what appears to be a vast ocean beneath the arid Tarim basin.
A French architectural firm has put forward a concept for a futuristic city situated in the desert.