Photographer extraordinaire Don Pettit is about to return to Earth following a seven-month stay aboard the space station. Take a moment to enjoy his best work.

After hours, the excursion is about seeing and also "listening, which is a less appreciated part of the safari experience," ...

Anza-Borrego Desert State Park "became the world's second IDA International Dark Sky Community in 2009"; other California ...

"I had found a freedom unattainable in civilization; a life unhampered by possessions,” the English explorer Wilfred Thesiger ...

A desert town between Reno and Las Vegas was a silver mining town that retains its unique charms a century later, now a destination for unusual art and hotels.