NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center decided to kick a hornet’s nest July 16 when it shared an image of one of Earth’s most debated oddities. Known as the Richat Structure, the formation is a series of ...

Indie game developer and publisher Alawar revealed their latest game in the works, as Richat Structure has been announced for Steam. The game is based on a real-world location in Mauritania, you will ...

There are many mysterious places around the world that boggle the mind. If you dig deep enough, many of them have logical explanations for their existence. Others are the subjects of myths and legends ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. In the middle of Mauritania's Sahara Desert, surrounded by an ocean of sand, lies a colossal ...

The Eye of Africa, or Richat Structure, is one of Earth’s most recognisable natural formations—yet for decades, scientists couldn’t agree on what it actually was. Now, fresh geological evidence has ...

Explore the origins of one of the coolest geologic formations in the world, West Africa's Richat Structure.

Jaw-dropping images taken from space shows a vast eye-shape gazing up from the desert. The so-called Richat Structure was captured by an astronaut from 222 miles up on the International Space Station ...

Astronauts aboard the International Space Station captured this image of a huge crater in Africa on Nov. 22, 2014. This is the Richat Structure in northwestern Mauritania, otherwise known as the “Eye ...

The circular formation in this photo is the Richat Structure of Mauritania, which “has captured the attention of astronauts for about as long as NASA has sent humans into orbit around Earth.” ...