Day trippers ready to move beyond Death Valley’s greatest hits should consider less popular tracts like the national park’s sand dunes, badlands and Star Wars backdrops. This geologic wonderland, ...

For decades, rocks in Death Valley’s Racetrack Playa appeared to move on their own. Scientists have now discovered that thin ...

Roughly a quarter of the national park’s more than 1 million visitors go there in June, July and August, when temperatures soar. Why? Roughly a quarter of the national park’s more than 1 million ...

"This story of Death valley includes the geologic history of the valley and a survey of its plant and animal life, but the bulk of the tale is about men--Indians, emigrants, and miners--who have known ...

In one of the hottest and driest parts of the world, there is a phenomenon that is most unexpected. At a remote dry lake bed in the world-famous Death Valley area in the United States, large rocks are ...