Bryan Nelson is a science writer and award-winning documentary filmmaker with over a decade of experience covering technology, astronomy, medicine, animals, and more. The Zhangye National Geopark in ...

Located just outside Capitol Reef National Park, the Bentonite Hills are a unique area featuring colorful, layered geologic formations made of bentonite clay, or weathered volcanic ash. The rocks date ...

The Colorado Plateau, in western Colorado, southeastern Utah, Northern Arizona and northwestern New Mexico, is commonly called red rock country or canyon country, both referring to formations of ...

If you saw a photograph of any of these colorful places, you’d think it was heavily edited. Can anywhere really have colors so bright and vibrant? These seven places are naturally vivid — but you may ...

Sandstone Canyon is one of several long canyons that stretch down the flanks of the rapidly eroding Vallecito Mountains. Frequent visitors to this part of the Anza-Borrego Desert consider Sandstone ...