This video shows a rocky desert landscape in the Gobi Desert, Mongolia, filled with towering sandstone formations shaped by ...

Chile's Atacama Desert, which gets less than 5 millimeters (0.2 inches) of rainfall each year, started to form more than 40 ...

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 research team led by Professor Xin Wang from Lanzhou University and Professor Fahu Chen from the Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, has uncovered new insights into ...

A new study shows that natural dust particles swirling in from faraway deserts can trigger freezing of clouds in Earth's Northern Hemisphere. This subtle mechanism influences how much sunlight clouds ...

Desert varnish is a micron-thin dark coating that develops over millennia on rock surfaces in arid and semi-arid regions. Composed primarily of manganese and iron oxyhydroxides interspersed with clay ...

Desert pavements are widespread geomorphological features characterised by a tightly interlocking surface layer of coarse clasts that protects underlying finer sediments. These pavements form through ...

There are millions of acres of deserts to explore within driving distance of L.A. The big boulders at Joshua Tree National Park, the famed low point at Death Valley National Park, and the remote ...

Chile's Atacama Desert, which gets less than 5 millimeters of rainfall each year, formed more than 40 million years ago ‪—‬ ...