The planet comprises a wide variety of desert landscapes, featuring everything from towering sand dunes and rock formations to alien-looking terrain and even ice. Nature lovers, take note ...

It is a fantastical landscape ... to simulate habitation on the red planet. The desert is, literally, home to would-be Martians. Recently, an alien presence of another kind brought this place ...

Utah is a land of striking landscapes ... criminally overlooked desert canyon filled with some of the strangest sandstone structures on the planet. Located in the heart of Dinosaur Land just ...

China’s landscapes are nothing short of spectacular, with scenes so surreal and breathtaking that they appear to be from another planet. From the vibrant, multicolored Rainbow Mountains of Zhangye to ...

Before they go to Mars, rovers like NASA’s Mars 2020 and the European Space Agency’s ExoMars missions need to be equipped to study the Red Planet and collect samples. So where’s the best ...

It is a strange and alien landscape. The rich red dunes ... over the huge red sand dunes of the Namib desert. The skies are among the clearest on the planet. More on Dead Vlei can be found on ...

"Even if a planet is in the habitable zone ... fiction writers are fond of rooting their imagined alien lifeforms on theoretical desert planets. These arid worlds have dominated the big screen ...

Deep in Tunisia’s Sahara desert is an abandoned settlement, part submerged by the sand, somehow alien, yet strangely familiar. The surrounding landscape ... the barren planet with twin suns ...

A camera affixed to the International Space Station recently spotted some curious symbols amid a barren desert landscape ... peers straight down at our planet and covers a scene approximately ...