Earth's largest star dunes are found in the Badain Jaran desert in western China. Star dunes also are found in places including the Namib Sand Sea in Namibia, large sand seas in Algeria such as ...

Scientists studied the Lala Lallia star dune in the Sahara Desert in eastern Morocco. Charles Bristow. From the ground, star dunes look like towering, pyramid-shaped mounds of sand.

This 2023 astronaut photo shows a series of slowly moving "star dunes" in the Erg Chebbi region of Morocco. Most of these massive structures are likely several centuries old.

This striking astronaut photo shows off an "eye-catching" impact crater in the Sahara Desert. The oculus-like structure is surrounded by migrating sand dunes that are capable of traveling more ...

Almost like a scene from Mars, or the Dune movies, astronauts aboard the International Space Station recently photographed Erg Chebbi, a vast sea of sand dunes spanning 11 miles by 5.5 miles in ...

Scientists Fear a Passing Star Could Fling Earth Out of the Sun's Orbit, Into the Frigid Expanse Beyond "It's a little scary how vulnerable we may be to planetary chaos." ...

NASA's Webb telescope glimpses coldest exoplanet yet found: What to know about gas giant An exoplanet 60 light-years away from Earth, known as 14 Herculis c, is thought to be as cold as 26 degrees ...

All four planets are so close to Barnard’s star, which has about one-seventh the mass of the sun, that they orbit it in less than a week. That means they’re too hot to be habitable, Basant says.