It's incredibly rare but there are a handful of beaches on Planet Earth where star-shaped sand can be found. Sand on three islands south of Japan, on Iriomote, Hatoma, and Taketomi, all have the ...

A star-shaped cookie cutter placed on pink sand, creating a perfect imprint and adding a sense of calm and symmetry.

From Hawaii's Papakōlea Beach to Butiama Beach in Tanzania to Reynisfjara in Iceland, there are many incredible beaches all ...

Star sand is a type of protozoa (Note 1) called foraminifera that develops a star-shaped calcareous shell. When it dies, the shell becomes sand. Two-thirds of the land of Tuvalu is actually made up of ...