NOAA’s preseason forecast is the 30,000-foot view of what’s likely. Here’s what forecasters will be watching for over the weeks and months ahead.

The preseason forecast is just the 30,000-foot view of what’s likely. Here’s what forecasters will be watching for over the weeks and months ahead.

Morocco treats wind and solar farms in Western Sahara as if they were in Morocco.

In a bid to ditch fossil fuels, some countries are considering carpeting deserts with solar panels.

There are more trees in the West African Sahara Desert that you might think, according to a study that used artificial intelligence and satellite imagery.

From June through October, it's not unusual for huge Saharan dust plumes to blow across the Atlantic. They can darken skies but also bring calmer weather and electric sunsets. Here's how they form.

Martian meteorites allow scientists here on Earth to decode that planet's geology, more than a decade before the first missions are scheduled to bring rocks back home from Mars.

The Sahara desert was once underwater and home to ancient relatives to animals like sharks and crocodiles, fossils show.