In 2005, I was navigating winding roads through the Drakensberg Mountains, in Lesotho, Southern Africa. Towering cliff-like features known as escarpments interrupt the landscape, rising up by a ...

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 ...

Mountains are some of the oldest residents of our planet. Earth's ancient temples of strength and resilience, sometimes taking the form of massive jagged fingers reaching for the sky, other times ...

Mountains are areas of land that are much higher than the land surrounding them. They are higher and usually steeper than a hill and are generally over 600 metres high. They are often found together ...

Maureen Long teaches earth and planetary sciences at Yale University. Speaking to Times Evoke, she maps out what lies beneath mountains: I am a seismologist and study the structure and dynamics of the ...

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 ...

Maureen Long teaches earth and planetary sciences at Yale University. WHAT LIES BENEATH: We are often delighted by the beauty of mountain ranges, as seen here in the Appalachians — but these reflect ...

Everest is the highest mountain on Earth, at 8.8 kilometers - but it's dwarfed by mountains elsewhere in the universe. The volcanic moon of Io, which orbits around the planet Jupiter, is home to ...