" said Melikechi."You see animals, but also figures that look like they came from somewhere else."- 'Historic' -Melikechi's second pick was the Ghoufi canyon in eastern Algeria, whose rocky desert ...

“The Martian” is the latest blockbuster to use Jordan’s Wadi Rum region as a stand-in for Mars. Because of the barren landscape and the reddish hue of the terrain, Mars movies like “Red ...

While much of the film will take place on Mars, it's the Middle Eastern desert of Wadi Rum, Jordan, which serves as the backdrop for the movie. The desert is a Hollywood favorite for films which ...

Is there life on Mars? That is a question that has been asked countless times. Unfortunately, up to this point, it hasn’t ...

I was glad to read Kelly and Zack Weinersmith’s debunking of Elon Musk’s idea of million-strong colonies on Mars. If people insist on living in hostile places either in domes or underground ...

“On Earth there are several environments similar to Mars, some of them are the Tinto River in Spain, the Atacama Desert in Chile, the Mojave Desert in the United States, Antarctica, the Sahara ...

“Here in the desert, Algeria has abandoned more than 13,000 people in the past 14 months, including pregnant women and children, stranding them without food or water and forcing them to walk, ...

Snow has fallen in the Sahara Desert in north-western Algeria as temperatures plummeted to below freezing. For children from nearby towns such as Mekalis, it was a welcome relief from the ...

In the vast expanse of the Sahara Desert, near the border between Algeria and Niger, thousands of Sub-Saharan migrants face a harrowing ordeal. Deported by Algerian authorities, they are often left ...