Something vast is lurking beneath our feet—so immense and anomalous that scientists are rethinking what qualifies as the ...

Earth's crust once formed a dense "root" supporting Colombia's northern Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta mountains, but new research suggests this prop sank into the mantle millions of years ago. When you ...

The Barberton Makhonjwa Mountains show us where Earth came from. They reveal how continents grew, how oceans formed, how the ...

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A lone man walks across an expanse of ice; a mottled tundra; desert badlands. The single human figure becomes a focal point ...

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This astronaut photo, captured in 2023, shows a wall of haze trapped by a mountain range in Pakistan. The low angle of the photo provides a unique perspective of the clouds pressed up against the ...

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Scientists have created a detailed map of the geology beneath Earth's southern hemisphere. They believe an ancient ocean floor may be wrapped around our planet's mysterious core. The new findings ...

Where is the snowiest place on Earth? Snow enthusiasts have been discussing it for a long time, but there’s no consensus. Could it be the Great Lakes, where feet of lake-effect snow falls at a time?

On Thursday and Saturday, two different "potentially hazardous" asteroids will fly by Earth. The first is as big as a mountain, and the second will be one of the brightest in recent history. Neither ...