A sand dune is much more than just a big pile of sand. But how do they work? And what else do scientists want to know about sand?

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) - A windy day on the beach can leave you a sandy mess with sand everywhere from in your clothes to sand in your hair. Windy beach days, however, can be very important to a beach's ...

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 ...

Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve is located where the wide-open and dry expanse of the San Luis Valley and the towering Sangre de Cristo Mountains collide. At first glance, the Colorado ...

For Matt, every day is Earth Day. As a Florida native and a waterman, his passion led him to a career and life of working with nature. On a partly cloudy afternoon, I met Matt on Jacksonville's ...

MICHIGAN CITY, Ind. (AP) — A towering sand dune at the Indiana Dunes National Park has kept up its inland creep, covering up an access road and threatening to bury a parking lot in the coming years.

TREASURE ISLAND, Fla. — The storm that hit Pinellas County last weekend severely eroded new beach sand dunes which cost more than $26 million to reconstruct after Hurricane Idalia brushed by the coast ...

Rich Whittecar isn’t searching for Blackbeard’s lost treasure in the sand dunes at First Landing State Park. Some people seem to think that when they see him wearing a hard hat and carrying a shovel ...

GALVESTON, Texas - The sand that blew from Porretto Beach over the seawall between Ninth and 10th streets this weekend piled up in miniature dunes in front of Tommy Hicks' house. The drifts that ...

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?

MICHIGAN CITY, Ind. (AP) - A towering sand dune at the Indiana Dunes National Park has kept up its inland creep, covering up an access road and threatening to bury a parking lot in the coming years.