Each year, the Goldman Environmental Prize honors grassroots activists from each of the six inhabited continental regions.

China was making final preparations for the launch on Thursday of a three-person replacement crew for its orbiting space ...

Sky's Helen-Ann Smith travelled to the Gobi Desert to see what China believes life on Mars will feel like.

In the most remote corner of the Sahara Desert in Mauritania, there is a small village, so isolated from the world that it is ...

Excavations on unpromising mounds in the Iraqi desert revealed Sumer’s earliest city. Surviving relics and a rebuilt temple have given experts more clues about the ancient metropolis of Eridu.

The launch of China's Shenzhou-20 is the next step in a tense race between NASA and China to create bases on the moon, and ...