Seekers of all stripes have been coming to Giant Rock, in the Mojave Desert just north of Landers, for a very long time. “I just know there’s something majestic about that rock and that land ...

Grant Thompson, who has a YouTube DIY science channel, struggles under the weight of a rocket at the Tripoli Rocketry Association’s major annual launch in the Black Rock Desert. This story ...

Firefighters pulled a 15-year-old from a 30-foot-deep crevasse in a rescue operation Monday, Feb. 24. The boy was suffering ...

A scattering of palm trees in a sandy desert was my first clue that I was close to Rock-A-Hoola Waterpark. Once I spotted colorful billboards, I was positive I had arrived. Just off the service ...

Meet "wooly devil," a fuzzy new plant species discovered at a national park in Texas is a brand new species. Botanists are ...

They came away with a handful of new routes - some of the most memorable and iconic routes of their lives - and the conviction that there are plenty more unclimbed desert towers to be explored. A ...

As a plane soars over the high desert of southern Peru, the dull pale sameness of the rocks and sand organize and change form. Distinct white lines gradually evolve from tan and rust-red.