Create your own adventure, winding through otherworldly rock formations and hunting fossils in this remote wilderness area.

Arriving in New Mexico, a newly annexed U.S. territory, Agostini settled into his cave and practiced his daily devotions. Each Sunday, he walked to Las Vegas, New Mexico, for Mass.

It’s another piece of data in a scientific debate over when our ancient ancestors reached the Americas. For decades, ...

Wikimedia Commons/US Geological Service White Sands, New Mexico David Bustos found strange marks in the white sands of New ...

In geology, even small layers can tell big stories. But figuring out the origins of such small layers can be a challenge, ...

Millions of years ago, a volcano created Wheeler Geologic Area. We visited the hoodoo-filled landscape and learned what it ...

Mud never lies,” added University of Arizona archaeologist Vance Holliday, whose new work has turned a century of hypothesis ...

CaveCreek4.jpg Penelope Donahue points out fossils in the limestone of the opening of Cave Creek Cave while on a June 8 hike in Santa Fe National Forest. The limestone, which is around 300 million ...

The Trump administration’s proposed budget bill would cut funding to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) by nearly 40%, ...

A new U.S. Geological Survey national report points to the large amount of estimated undiscovered natural gas lying below federal lands in western Colorado, and two recent assessments zero in ...

Monsoonal thunderstorms triggered a Flash Flood Emergency in Ruidoso, New Mexico, on Thursday, with over an inch of rain falling on wildfire-scarred terrain, prompting road closures across the Desert ...

These are the best places to visit in New Mexico, from small towns to scenic hiking trails to one of the country’s highest bridges.