From White Sands and the Great Sand Dunes to Bryce, Bisti, Bonneville, and Petrified Forest, these 10 U.S. landscapes feel almost extraterrestrial, shaped not by lava but by gypsum, salt, sandstone, ...

Most people don’t associate Oregon with dramatic desert canyons and towering rock spires, which is exactly why Smith Rock ...

Roxborough State Park in Littleton proves that Colorado’s greatest trick is hiding its most surreal treasures in plain sight, just beyond the suburbs where most people never think to look. Let’s talk ...

Wild animals are not just inhabitants of the natural world. Many also act as natural landscape engineers, reshaping Earth's ...

A volcanic formation known as Pele’s hair is produced when air-filled magma is stretched, according to a new study by a team ...

Deepwater rock wrinkles likely formed from chemosynthetic microbes, not just physical processes, reshaping assumptions about ...

Olivine, the most common mineral in the upper 400 km (about 250 miles) of Earth’s interior, has long been studied for how it deforms. Scientists have identified two primary directions of dislocation ...

The world's soils are under pressure from climate change and population growth. Investors' interest is surging, but scientists have yet to pay soils due tribute. Soil is one of the most precious ...