Joshua Tree is home to two major desert ecosystems: the Colorado Desert and the Mojave Desert ... will also be able to admire the night sky. Joshua Tree is also an International Dark Sky ...

The Fortynine Palms Oasis Trail is a 3-mile round trip adventure that’ll make you feel like you’ve stumbled onto the set of a ...

Construction work has temporarily shuttered a rest area along Interstate 40 in the Mojave Desert. The John Wilkie Safety Roadside Rest Area on east and westbound I-40 near Fenner is closed until ...

An earthquake shook a remote area of the Mojave Desert near Boron and Barstow on Wednesday night. The 3.5 magnitude earthquake struck at 9:27 p.m., about 20 miles east-northeast of Boron in Kern ...

In 1947, Chuck Yeager became the first human to break the sound barrier when he pushed the Bell X-1 past Mach 1 during a flight over the Mojave Desert. Boom Supersonic's XB-1 is a stepping stone ...

About 35,000 feet (10,670 meters) over the Mojave Desert, northwest of Los Angeles, Boom Supersonic's XB-1 became the first privately funded airplane to break the sound barrier during a test ...

A civilian jet broke the sound barrier three times during a test flight in California’s Mojave Desert on Tuesday, the first time a privately developed and built aircraft has accomplished such a ...

and up to 8 inches above 5000 feet for Eastern Mojave Desert. In Nevada, Southern Clark County from 10 p.m. this evening to 10 p.m. Monday. "Travel could be very difficult to impossible at times ...

These planetary hangouts happen when several planets appear to line up in the night sky at once ... but only two planets could be seen without any special equipment. Venus, Mars, Jupiter and ...