I CAN SEE TEXAS FROM where I am standing, in a tilled field near the eastern New Mexico state line. The crop was harvested a few weeks ago, and birds happily flit through the rows, picking at what’s ...

Clyde Tombaugh, who famously discovered Pluto, was in his Las Cruces backyard with his wife and mother-in-law on a clear, starry night when “he saw a series of rectangular, illuminated boxes moving ...

IMAGINE THE FINGER BONES of a human hand stretched out to something like body length, with webbing spanning between the fingers. That is, essentially, the bone structure of a bat’s wings. “Their wings ...

ON MARCH 8, 1949, an aircraft systems inspector at Los Alamos National Laboratory looked up to see “an elliptical, rather stubby, aluminum body” surrounded by “billowy flame.” While watching it ...

Plan your weekend in New Mexico, October 9–11, with fall festivals, Indigenous Peoples’ Day celebrations, plus the XTERRA World Championship in Ruidoso.

WHEN THE FIRST ATOMIC bomb was tested at White Sands Missile Range in 1945, surrounding sands were sucked into the flames. That atomic sludge dried out to trinitite, an eerie-looking grayish-green ...

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Start early at Balloon Fiesta, watch a steamroller make art in Silver City, and find more festivals and events on the October calendar.

Oklahoma-based sculptor Hugh Meade built Intersection Point Zero from two soaring arches—one blocky weathering steel, one swirling polished aluminum—that meet at a four-inch gap. Look up through the ...

FAST BECOMING ONE OF the most anticipated film festivals in the Southwest, the Santa Fe International Film Festival turns the City Different into a cinephile’s paradise with hundreds of films ...