For generations, artists and science-fiction writers have imagined alien landscapes beneath twin sunsets. The image became iconic in popular culture long before astronomers confirmed that planets ...

But there are places on Earth that appear out of character, or even alien. One of them is Craters of the Moon National ...

An alien landscape? One of the landmarks when Earth is seen from space is the thirty-mile-wide Richat Structure, or Eye of the Sahara, found in Mauritania (Figure I.1). Some thought the Richat ...

Saturn’s moon Titan looks very much like Earth from space, with rivers, lakes, and seas filled by rain tumbling through a thick atmosphere. While these landscapes may look familiar, they are composed ...

You do not need lava fields to find a truly otherworldly American landscape. Some of the strangest scenery in the country comes from gypsum, salt, sandstone, wind, ancient lakes, and millions of years ...

‘Alien Shores’ explores landscape as a place of memory, imagination, yearning and belonging. Through painting, video, photography and sculpture, the artists included offer speculative, symbolic or ...