The United States is home to a stunning diversity of landscapes, some so surreal they seem to have been plucked from a ...

The mini-moon 2024 PT5, which has been orbiting Earth for two months and is likely a chunk of the moon, will now drift away ...

Planet Earth is parting company with an asteroid that’s been tagging along as a “mini moon” for the past two months.

Instruments like the those currently on the Red Planet were used to study samples collected from an 'Mars-like' area in Chile's Atacama Desert. Researchers found that the instruments have little ...

Groundwater pumping has been causing the land to sink at a record pace in California's San Joaquin Valley. New research ...

This type of dune can form some of the tallest on Earth, reaching up to 300 meters (984 feet) high in other parts of the world like the Badain Jaran Desert in China. “Despite their large size ...

Over time, these arrowhead-shaped piles of sand are pushed across the desert by the wind and move in the opposite direction that their "horns" are pointed in, according to NASA's Earth Observatory.

The Atacama Desert, which runs along the Pacific Coast in Chile, is the driest place on the planet and, largely because of that aridity, hostile to most living things. Not everything, though ...