mountains

Scientists detected two ancient ranges of 'supermountains' that criss-crossed the Earth hundreds of millions of years ago — and may have jump-started animal evolution.

Scientists have used computer models to predict the size of minuscule deformations, or mountains, on the surfaces of neutron stars, which are responsible for causing gravitational waves as they spin.

Utah wildlife officials have restocked lakes in this way since the 1950s.

For a billion years Earth's mountains stopped growing, and may have starved the sea of nutrients, new research finds.

The Central Alps are growing "surprisingly quickly."

Melting ice revealed a long-lost trail in Norway that was strewn with objects dating to the Viking Age.

Imagine a world where mountains grow so high, they poke through the upper atmosphere and create a rocky maze for pilots to navigate.

Melting glaciers are revealing dozens of dead bodies on the world's tallest mountain

A missing rare-earth element points to the origin of continents.

As the now-iconic Andes Mountains rose skyward along the western coast of South America dozens of millions of years ago, violent volcanic activity rocked the continent, a new study finds.