This meteorite, affectionately dubbed NWA 16788, isn’t just any space rock, though. At a stunning $5.3 million, not only did it fetch the highest price of any meteorite ever, it’s also the largest, ...

It's another meteoric rise for what's called the largest piece of Mars on Earth. The 54-pound rock fetched nearly $5.3 ...

The largest Mars meteorite ever found on Earth was sold at a Sotheby's auction in New York on Wednesday for $4.3 million.

In southern California’s Coachella Valley, pale sand dunes sprawl under the desert sun, shifting and re-forming in the wind.

The uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) Party of South Africa, led by former President Jacob Zuma, has backed Morocco’s sovereignty over ...

Researchers suspect that two meteorites found in the Sahara Desert in 2023 may originally have come from Mercury, which would ...

A team of paleontologists led by National Geographic Explorer Paul Sereno uncovered a trove of dinosaur fossils in the Sahara ...

The Western Sahara is the most sparsely populated territory in Africa, much of it desert. On the surface, it appears to have ...

The 54-pound meteorite is believed to have been blown off of Mars by an asteroid strike before crashing into the Sahara Desert.

Shark cage diving in Gansbaai, South Africa, is safe and offers close encounters with great white sharks. Other adventure ...