Another crop circle has appeared in the English countryside — and this one's clearly been made by someone, or something, that understands math. At first glance, the strange ratcheted pattern, ...

A growing underground art movement combines mathematics, technology, stalks and whimsy. Richard Taylor looks forward to a bumper batch of intricate crop patterns this summer. Last summer, a ...

The Namib desert is covered with regular patterns of bare circles whose origin is fiercely debated by researchers – but it now seems both leading explanations may be right. One camp claims the empty ...

Researchers say that the rings of vegetation, which had mostly been studied in Namibia and Australia, may exist in 15 countries. By Rachel Nuwer Fairy circles inspire wonder in viewers and fuel ...

In southern Africa’s Namib Desert, the sprawling grasslands are splotched with a set of spots. Fields of “fairy circles,” barren circles edged with patches of vegetation and ranging from 10 to 65 feet ...

In the remote grasslands of southwestern Africa’s Namib Desert and the Pilbara region of Australia some 6,000 miles away, large, barren circles crowd the landscape, like holes stamped out by a cookie ...

Crop circles first began cropping up in the 1970s, sparking claims that they were created by extraterrestrials. Although two men came forward in 1991 and said that they had created the patterns as a ...