Mountain waves, it's a large-scale wind pattern that typically happens in the cooler months from fall to early spring. This weather phenomenon occurs in many mountain ranges around the globe including ...

The world's longest mountain chain stretches along the entire west coast of South America, but scientists have been struggling to explain how it formed. Published Dec. 1 in Nature, research led by ...

This article is part of our occasional long read series Zoom Out, where authors explore key ideas in science and technology in the broader context of society and humanity. Nestled deep in Central Asia ...

Astronauts onboard the International Space Station (ISS) shot these photographs of the Himalayas, the Tibetan Plateau, and the Indo-Gangetic plain. A team of researchers at the Stanford Doerr School ...

Have you ever imagined what Antarctica looks like beneath its thick blanket of ice? Hidden below are rugged mountains, valleys, hills and plains. Some peaks, like the towering Transantarctic Mountains ...

The destruction of these ancient mountains may have fueled Earth's biggest evolution booms. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Twice ...

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 ...

Salt is an essential nutrient for the human body. But hundreds of millions of years before the first humans, salt minerals ...

The youngest and oldest mountain ranges on Earth: It might surprise you to know that mountains aren't static; they are constantly being formed and weathered away over millions, even billions, of years ...