For years, France buried radioactive waste from nuclear tests it conducted in the Algerian desert. And for decades, it ...

A huge cloud of Saharan dust has swept across Europe in the last few days, already hitting Italy and continuing to spread ...

WASP-121b is like nothing in the solar system, raining liquid metal and being puffy like a marshmallow. The origins of these ...

The results suggest that the radioactive dust originated in Algeria's Reggane region, but its plutonium levels didn't match ...

The Largest Hot Desert When imagining the vastness of the world, the Sahara Desert often stands out. 2 million square kilometers, it ranks as the largest hot desert on our planet. To give you a sense ...

NASA's Osiris-Rex spacecraft returned 122 grams (4 ounces) of dust and pebbles from the near ... of California’s Mojave Desert and Africa’s Sahara — would be stripped away if present in ...

NASA’s Osiris-Rex spacecraft returned 122 grams of dust and pebbles from the near ... of California’s Mojave Desert and Africa’s Sahara — would be stripped away if present in falling ...

Southern California air quality monitors issued a dust and ash alert for all of Los Angeles County as strong Santa Ana winds blow through the Eaton and Palisades burn scars. The windblown advisory ...

SEOUL - Most of South Korea was covered by thick, ultra-fine dust for the second consecutive day on Jan 22, with such conditions forecast to continue until Jan 23, according to the National ...

Learn more. Please also consider subscribing to WIRED It's totally understandable if you haven’t opened Apple Maps since its disastrous launch in 2012, which among other things saw people ...

The newly updated map shows all of Morocco’s territory, explicitly recognizing the Western Sahara as an integral part of the North African country. The CIA's official website now describes ...