Deserts are often dismissed as too harsh, too barren, too empty to be worth exploring, and that might be the greatest ...

Many people think deserts are only hot, but the two largest deserts on Earth are actually cold deserts. Take a look at the ...

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Earth’s driest ecosystems are a study in extremes: They can be blazingly hot stretches of sand like the Sahara Desert or shatteringly cold expanses of ice such as those in Greenland and Antarctica.

Explore the 15 hottest places on Earth, from record-breaking temperatures to sizzling cities with blazing annual averages, all claiming their spot among the world’s most scorching destinations.

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

Salt nodules (whitish rocks in the foreground) are the last outpost of life in the hyperarid core of the Atacama Desert (see hammer for scale). In a new paper published in Environmental Microbiology, ...

NASA’s first Mars helicopter turned a risky experiment into a new way of exploring another world, and now its successors are ...

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