In deserts, life can often seem impossible. But scientists keep discovering new ways that life can thrive in even the ...

For most organisms on Earth, rocks are objects, not food. But for one oddball microbe, desert limestone seems to have been on ...

In the desert areas of Namibia, Oman, and Saudi Arabia, research work has revealed unusual structures that are probably due ...

Mysterious tunnels in desert rocks may be the work of unknown microbes, hinting at a hidden world inside marble and limestone ...

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 ...

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In the high desert of north-central New Mexico, a 40-minute drive west of Santa Fe, a surreal landscape of eroded volcanic ...

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 ...

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 ...