Did you know a massive plume of dust from Africa is on its way across the ocean — and it could impact this hurricane season?

Saharan dust will blanket Florida and the Gulf Coast, causing hazy skies, colorful sunsets and short‑term air-quality issues.

Large plumes of dust that originated in the Sahara Desert could begin causing hazy skies over South Florida this week.

Some 700 years ago, an unknown people built a massive citadel in the middle of the Sahara Desert that's known as Ksar Draa.

A rare Sahara Desert meteorite revealed a lost Mars-sized planet from the solar system's first million years. The post ...

Today the Sahara desert is a dry, dusty, sandy land that stretches for millions of miles, but it wasn't always this way. Go back at little as 8,000 years and you'll find it was actually quite wet, ...

Dozens of people died of thirst in the Sahara Desert in a northern region of Niger after their truck broke down and they were ...

Ibra Boulama Issa, learned that the truck had been traveling for several days from the Malian town of Talhandek, located approximately 300 kilometers (187 miles) from the Nigerien border. open image ...

The fascinating but little-known history of how the Sahara was transformed from a pleasant green and fertile land into the largest hot desert in the world. Green Sahara. (Collage by Kuat Abeshev.

Africa's Sahara Desert isn't the place you'd expect to see snow. Yet a rare winter storm powdered the arid sand dunes of northwestern Algeria with white snow on Sunday, the third time an event like ...

Asharq Al Awsat Ukraine and Russia each exchanged 185 service personnel in the latest prisoner of war swap on Friday, officials in both countries said.Most of the Ukrainians brought back were in ...