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New research is rewriting the story of the Arabian deserts, showing they were once full of water, wildlife and human life ...

Earth’s driest ecosystems are a study in extremes: They can be blazingly hot stretches of sand like the Sahara Desert or shatteringly cold expanses of ice such as those in Greenland and Antarctica.

Mars looks familiar in telescope images, but its thin air, deep cold and radiation soaked surface would kill an unprotected ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The survival tricks adopted by microbes known as hypolithic cyanobacteria, which are found ...

New scientific studies show Saudi Arabia’s deserts were once humid, green landscapes shaped by rivers, lakes and monsoon ...

Scientists love visiting the most extreme places on Earth to try to get a better sense of what life could be like on other, less hospitable planets—but there are only so many scientists, and they only ...

The world’s hot deserts are some of the most inhospitable places on the planet during the summer months. Despite the hazards, millions of travellers brave these brutal conditions every year and hop ...

Salt nodules (whitish rocks in the foreground) are the last outpost of life in the hyperarid core of the Atacama Desert (see hammer for scale). In a new paper published in Environmental Microbiology, ...

The first space-style greenhouse could open in Abu Dhabi in 2022. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. High-tech solar greenhouses ...