This isn’t the Sahara or Gobi Desert. This is Colorado. Specifically Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve, home of the tallest dunes in North America. “We just had one of our scientists do some ...

Hidden in a sea of sand, there are plants, insects and animals that call the Oregon dunes home. But some species, such as the Siuslaw hairy-necked tiger beetle, are seeing their habitat shrink year ...

It's ice dunes season at Presque Isle State Park. Though they sometimes have a moonscape quality to them and are beautiful to look at, the frozen mounds of ice, snow and wave spray that accumulate ...

Large sand dunes along Lake Michigan's beaches in Northwestern Indiana are a draw year-round for road trippers and nature lovers. The Indiana Dunes tower almost 200 feet above the lake and have formed ...

Dune formation across the solar system is influenced by varying atmospheric conditions, gravity, and surface composition, resulting in diverse dune morphologies and sizes. This variation allows for ...

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Andrew Gunn, Lecturer, Monash University What is it ...

The iconic landscapes of Wadi Rum in Jordan and southern Africa’s Namib Desert have long been celebrated as the visual inspiration behind the fictional world of Arrakis in Frank Herbert’s 1965 sci-fi ...

"We place these trees out onto the toe of the dunes, just on the south side of the dunes, where the sand begins to get flat, ...

What is it like to be on the surface of Mars or Venus? Or even further afield, such as on Pluto, or Saturn’s moon Titan? This curiosity has driven advances in space exploration since Sputnik 1 was ...

The Indiana Dunes National Park is at risk of losing revenue and years of work regarding the overall maintenance and upkeep ...

Andrew Gunn received funding from the National Aeronautics and Space Agency. What is it like to be on the surface of Mars or Venus? Or even further afield, such as on Pluto, or Saturn’s moon Titan?