Leftover chemical traces from ancient raindrops are helping researchers determine how prehistoric mountains that stretch from North America to Mexico were formed. Fifty million years ago, mountains ...

Earth is speckled with mountains, from the slight Mount Wycheproof, rising 482 feet (147 meters) above sea level in Victoria, Australia, to the highest mountain on Earth, Mount Everest, standing ...

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 ...

The theory of plate tectonics is strikingly recent in scientific history, which was widely accepted in the early 1960's. Now, scientists have discovered an alternative style to plate tectonics and ...

The planet huffed and puffed and blew away rock that could have formed mighty mountains, according to new research. Bedrock in Central Asia that would have formed mountains over the past 3 million ...