An astronaut of the European Space Agency (ESA) has shared breathtaking photos of the Namib Desert in western Namibia captured from space. The Namib is believed to be among the oldest deserts on ...

Strewn across the Namib desert is a treasure trove of stone tools of which little is known because getting to them is so difficult. There are few roads and vehicles have limited access in this ...

Ironically, the desert in question is nowhere near Southern California. The joke about Hollywood pretending the whole world looks like LA wouldn't have applied to Fallout, which is actually set in ...

They treated it like a giant nude beach. Foreign tourists angered Namibian authorities after posing naked atop the legendary "Big Daddy" sand dune in the Namib Desert, as seen in photos ...

Scientists have gone back and forth for decades on the cause behind the Namib Desert’s mysterious “fairy circles.” A new study offers what may finally be evidence for a clear explanation.

For over 50 years, ecologists have studied and debated the mystery of the Namib Desert's "fairy circles," circular patches, mostly barren of grass, that have spread across 1,100 miles in the arid ...

For their latest study, Dr. Getzin and his colleagues spent three years examining fairy circles at 10 study sites across 620 miles of desert. One of those years, 2020, was a drought, while 2021 ...