From a distance, the Ivanpah solar plant looks like a shimmering lake in the Mojave Desert. Up close, it’s a vast alien-like installation of hundreds of thousand of mirrors pointed at three towers, ...

Namib Desert features red dunes and Deadvlei's ancient trees, evoking a Martian landscape against a blue sky. Egypt's White Desert features surreal white chalk formations shaped by wind and sand, ...

This footage has been recorded by NASA's Johnson Space Center. Astronauts aboard the International Space Station regularly capture stunning images of our planet, leaving space lovers mesmerized.

Many of them are abstract figures that seem to depict distorted forms of human bodies SCIENTISTS have discovered hundreds of mysterious giant alien-looking figures among 2,000-year-old Nazca Lines ...

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Most people have never heard of this place—and honestly, that’s part of the appeal. Sun Lakes–Dry Falls State Park in central Washington is one of the most fascinating (and alien-looking) landscapes ...

SCIENTISTS have discovered hundreds of mysterious giant alien-looking figures among 2,000-year-old Nazca Lines carved into Peru’s desert. The ancient drawings show abstract shapes that look like ...