The United States has a habit of showcasing its geology. Long before cities and highways showed up, forces beneath the ...

This past week, nonagenarian Don Kelsey — a retired educator and handyman — visited Lowell Observatory with family and friends to introduce them to an old friend whose story threads through some of ...

Reader's Digest named a historic road that crosses several popular tourist destinations in Arizona as one of the best places to travel in 2026.

Park highlights include glacially carved peaks and lakes, stunning views, six National Historic Landmarks, and more than 700 ...

Carlos Beltrán and Andruw Jones were elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame on Tuesday night the old-fashioned way.

We begin the new year by taking a deep dive into an even deeper subject: the mysteries of geologic time. We leave the turbulent present to visit the past, exploring the West long before it became the ...

Humanity’s drive to explore has taken us across the solar system, with astronaut boots, various landers and rovers’ wheels ...

Robot rovers on Mars have recently provided the best evidence of past Martian life to date. In September, NASA announced the discovery of likely biosignatures on the red planet: small ...

The West is known for its spectacular mountains, but it's often the canyons that provide incredible and unique perspectives.

I perched on the edge of disaster. Oddly enough, I wanted to laugh, perhaps in a strange effort to reduce the planet’s best ...

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