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.

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 ...

SILVER CITY HAS A LONG artistic history that has only been enhanced over the last decade by the evolution of the Southwest Print Fiesta. Celebrating its 10th anniversary, the four-day bonanza of print ...

SANTA FE IS ONLY one of many geographic entry points to get to know and collect New Mexico art. Across the state, these galleries and venues are creating buzz while changing perceptions of a diverse ...

I CLAP MY HANDS over my ears to deaden the roar as six military training jets thunder over the Roswell desert at close to 400 mph. Jostling for position along the 10.3-mile course, the modified Aero L ...

Pie Town is known for two things: a high probability of available pastry and wide-open, impossibly dark night skies. Thanks to a flourishing crop of hardworking and generous locals, visitors are still ...

THE STORY OF MODERN ART in New Mexico often begins with the tale of Ernest Blumenschein, Bert Geer Phillips, and their broken wagon wheel on the outskirts of Taos. In 1898, the vehicle mishap resulted ...