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 ...

When you walk around on land, you are walking on top of Earth’s rocky crust. Below the crust is another thick layer of rock. These layers form Earth’s tectonic plates, and when those plates collide ...

One of the big questions in biology is why certain plants and animals are found in some places and not others. Figuring out how species evolve and spread, and why some places are richer in species ...

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 ...

AMHERST, Mass. - The formation mechanism of the Adirondack Mountains in upstate New York has long posed a geologic mystery, say seismology researchers at the nearby University of Massachusetts Amherst ...

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 ...

The Great Transformation The Dolomites are about 250 millions years old and are composed mainly of sedimentary rocks and ...

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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 ...

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 ...