Residents of the world's driest desert, the Atacama in northern Chile, woke up Thursday to a jaw-dropping spectacle: its famous lunar landscape blanketed in snow. "INCREDIBLE! The Atacama Desert, the ...

A rare and stunning snowfall recently blanketed parts of Earth’s deserts, transforming dry landscapes into icy wonderlands. Scientists are studying what causes these unusual events—and whether ...

Turkmenistan, a Central Asian country where sandy deserts account for 80 percent its territory, is prepared to pay 1 million pounds ($1,289,000) to British company Andrew Bowen Ltd. for 10,000 ...

When you think of the Sahara Desert, snow most certainly doesn’t come to mind. Yet, just in time for the holidays, snow fell on the Sahara Desert. It’s a Christmas miracle! Or, much more ...

Snow in the Sahara desert? It happened. Images and video captured over the weekend show the hottest desert in the world partially covered in white snow after a rare snowstorm on Jan. 7.

The area known as "the gateway to the desert" was covered with snow over the weekend, and some of it was captured on Instagram.

The Thanksgiving Day storm was producing significant amounts of snow in Southern California’s high desert region Thursday. Up to 8 inches of snow was reported in some parts of the Antelope ...

The algal abundance in stream channels of this polar desert make the streams biogeochemical hot spots. The MDVs receive minimal precipitation all in the form as snow, which is redistributed by wind ...

SNOW in hot deserts tends to be an unusual sight, but this recent snap of the white-capped expanse of the Sonoran desert, which covers more than 250,000 square kilometres in the US and Mexico, is ...

Bright orange sand in the Sahara Desert was dusted in a layer of snow earlier this week after a strong polar front from the Mediterranean pushed past the Atlas Mountains near the coast of Algeria ...

In the Sahara desert, known for its suffocating heat, a freak snow shower coated the dusty dunes near the Algerian town of Ain Sefra.

This week’s winter snowfall across much of the High Desert has made getting around the area more difficult.