Visitors descending on the remote Nevada desert for “Storm Area 51” are from Earth, not outer space.

No liquid? No problem for these hardy species.

DOHA, July 16: The roads here can be impervious to GPS navigation. Drive around the city, and the green line on the screen will start interlacing into useless shapes. The robot voice will begin to contradict itself.

Many may feel that holidays and deserts don’t go together, but we here at The Week beg to differ. With proper planning, deserts offer a uniquely lovely traveling experience. The cloudless skies, the mesmerizing sight of endless sand dunes (the sunsets in particular) and then, the  adventure activities, the unique culture of the people from the area, there is a lot that makes journey into the desert a memorable one.

SAPTARI, Sept 1: Dhiwaga village in Saptari would be popularly called a ‘food zone’ due to its abundant production of food grains. Over the years, the small village with around 1,000 households was gradually shrinking. Floods every monsoon and the changing course of the nearby Belan river was taking its toll on the land. This impacted the production of rice, maize and wheat in Dhiwaga. According to the locals, all their land have now turned into a desert.

DAKAR, Senegal, June 27: The International Organization for Migration says 51 migrants are presumed dead in the Sahara Desert in Niger after smugglers abandoned them during their journey north to Libya.

LAHAN, April 5: A dozen district level leaders and cadres of the National Madhes Socialist Party led by Sharad Singh Bhandari have resigned en masse.

RUKBAN CAMP, Jordan-Syria Border March 2: U.N. agencies are ramping up aid delivery to tens of thousands of war-displaced Syrians stuck in the desert on Jordan's sealed border, after months of being denied access, but harsh weather and anxious crowds often disrupt one of the U.N.'s most complex missions anywhere.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, Jan 16: nvestigators in the United Arab Emirates are looking into what caused a hot-air balloon to abruptly drop from the sky, injuring six tourists onboard.

The Algerian town of Ain Sefra, deep in the dry, hot Sahara desert was hit by a freak snowfall on December 19. It’s the first time snow has fallen in the region in 37 years.

R&B singer Rihanna has surprised fans at the Desert Trip Festival in California when she joined the Beatles star Paul McCartney onstage for a rendition of their song "FourFiveSeconds" with rapper Kanye West.