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 ...

Mountains, like rainforests, are hotbeds of biodiversity. But scientists aren't sure why. For years, they've thought that it might be related to the new environments that arise when mountains form-- ...

Mountains aren't the static, unchanging giants they appear to be during a human lifetime. These massive formations are constantly shifting, growing, or shrinking at rates that vary dramatically across ...

It takes a lot of stress, and a little chaos, to create some of the tallest mountains in our solar system. That is the theory proposed by earth and planetary scientists at Washington University in St.

Building mountains in minutes requires deep rocks and a big bang. Rings of mountainous peaks sit inside large impact craters, but scientists weren’t sure how these features formed. One explanation ...

Pyeongchang County, site of the Winter Olympics 2018, is located in the Taebaek Mountains, which stretch along the east coast of the Korean Peninsula for more than 300 miles. Despite a low average ...

The giant asteroid Ceres is a pretty smooth object. Sure, it has craters, but they're fairly shallow. It has no deep rifts, tall ridges, or mountains to speak of. Mountains are the product of ...