Scientists are excited over a recent discovery of "black mesas" in the Sahara desert that appear to be hundreds of millions of years old. The are was discovered in the southern Mauritania region of ...

A 2023 astronaut photo shows three dark hills, or mesas, towering above part of the Sahara desert in southern Mauritania. The ...

Stunning concentric rings in Libya's Sahara Desert, Jabal Arkanū, were formed by ancient volcanic activity and millions of ...

Dust from the Sahara Desert is currently moving across the Atlantic Ocean, which could make skies in the South hazy during early June. The Sahara Desert in North Africa spans more than 3.5 million ...

Located approximately 8 miles northwest of Guérou in southern Mauritania, these black mesas rise steeply from the surrounding plains, reaching heights of 1,000 to 1,300 feet. Composed of sandstone, ...

Think the lazy, hazy days of summer have been a little more hazy this year? It’s not your imagination. The annual occurrence of the Sahara Air Layer is one of the largest on record this year. The ...

The Sahara is hiding a perfect 50-kilometre bullseye that can be seen only from space. What carved this giant eye into the ...

Dust from the Sahara Desert could help keep a lid on Atlantic hurricanes, at least for the next few days. Hurricane forecasters on Wednesday continued to watch a plume of dust that had moved off ...

(WGHP) – A plume of dust from the Sahara desert has been traveling across the Atlantic Ocean making its way to the United States over the last few days. NOAA’s GOES-19 satellite has been tracking ...