Mount Denali, North America's highest mountain, is a beautiful sight. While beautiful, though, scientists have long wondered exactly how this mountain came to be. Now, new research has finally ...

Whether they are above ground or below the ocean’s surface, mountains not only reveal the continually shifting nature of the Earth, they also profoundly affect weather conditions, contain diverse ...

A study suggests that the answers to how and why mountains form are buried deeper than once thought. Clues in the landscape of southern Italy allowed researchers to produce a long-term, continuous ...

In 2005, I was navigating winding roads through the Drakensberg Mountains, in Lesotho, Southern Africa. Towering cliff-like features known as escarpments interrupt the landscape, rising up by a ...

Imagine a world where mountains grow so high, they poke through the upper atmosphere and create a rocky maze for pilots to navigate. Maybe that world exists somewhere in the far reaches of the ...

One hypothesis is that the mountain range is a remnant of a young Iapetus which rotated much faster than it does today and rapidly cooled to "freeze" in place a ridge. However, a recent study shows ...

Researchers examined the plant life in the China's Hengduan Mountains, the Himalaya Mountains, and the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Using DNA to build family trees of species, they learned that the ...

NASA's Curiosity rover has been helping uncover the secrets of Mars since landing on the Red Planet in August 2012. It has drilled into rocks and soil and taken photos of odd features so that ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NASA’s Curiosity rover has been helping ...