Ground-breaking new research has shown that erosion caused by glaciation during ice ages can, in the right circumstances, wear down mountains faster than plate tectonics can build them. The ...

Julia Carr, who graduated with her doctorate in geosciences from Penn State in 2022, flying a drone in the Luye reach in the southern eastern central mountains of Taiwan. Scientists used drones to ...

For over 500 million years, something extraordinary has been hidden beneath Antarctica’s thick, icy surface. Now, scientists are more convinced than ever: another ancient mountain range lies buried ...

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 ...

Earth's mountain ranges tend to march across the planet in fairly straight lines, but sometimes these colossal mountain chains make a sudden, dramatic curve. And although scientists have long ...