When you think of the tallest mountains on Earth, Mount Everest probably comes to mind. But what if we told you that the real ...

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 ...

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The Ancient Heart Beats With Billion-Year-Old Rocks 7 billion years ago during the Precambrian Era. 0 billion years old, making them among the oldest rocks found in the United States. 6 billion years ...

Sixty million years ago, when the Eurasian plate slammed into the Indian plate, a mountain range was born. Because these plates were of similar density, neither could sink below the other. The rocks ...

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Research, led by The University of Alabama, has revealed a dense layer of ancient ocean floor, or an ultra-low velocity zone (ULVZ), near Earth’s core, according to a new study. While Earth’s core is ...

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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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 ...