Itching to shred the gnar and leave first tracks on the fresh pow-pow this winter? Translation: Excited to ski or snowboard on the freshly fallen powder this winter? As we wait for Opening Day on Vail ...

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 ...

Discover everything about the Cascade Range mountains. Check their location, volcanoes, climate, and importance across ...

In 1958, Russian scientists climbed across the coldest place on earth, the immense Antarctic ice sheet, taking measurements of what lay under the surface. To their surprise, what they discovered was a ...

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 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 ...

The mighty Rocky Mountains extend nearly 4,000 miles between British Columbia and New Mexico. Geologists divide them into ranges that include the Bighorn, Beartooth, Black Hills (famous for Mount ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Rock samples that were taken from the Chicxulub crater in Mexico is shedding more light on the impact of the force brought about by the large asteroid that caused the extinction of dinosaurs about 65 ...