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 ...

Namibia is a southwestern African nation roughly twice the size of California, known for having the world’s oldest desert.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Getzin first saw these mystery circles in person when he was studying at the University of Namibia more than 20 years ago. He published his initial study on the topic in 2000, in which he named ...