Start at the Furnace Creek visitor center in Death ... Valley. The weather is harsh enough there to serve an analogue for weather conditions on Mars. But then he discovered the sailing stones.

After years of speculation and failed theories, researchers finally caught the rocks in motion. Discover the natural forces ...

ice shove is what causes the stones to travel. While Death Valley is exceedingly hot in the summer, winter nights can dip below freezing, especially at higher altitudes (Racetrack Playa is at ...

Deep in the California Desert lies a spot known as Death Valley. But unlike ghost towns, dinosaurs, and other fossils one can find in the desert, in Death Valley rocks seem to have come alive. For ...

One of the longest-running natural mysteries in the United States, though, was that of the Sailing Stones of Death Valley. In Death Valley National Park, located on the sizzling border between ...

Thriving in ‘hell on Earth’ Death Valley, it turns out, has a little Las Vegas-style hype in its history. The ancestral homelands of the Timbisha Shoshone, the area got its name from a squad ...