Stretching like a colossal spine along western South America, the Andes stand as the world's longest mountain range. It spans ...

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 ...

When you walk around on land, you are walking on top of Earth’s rocky crust. Below the crust is another thick layer of rock. These layers form Earth’s tectonic plates, and when those plates collide ...

A giant blob of abnormally hot rock beneath the Appalachian Mountains formed when Greenland separated from North America around 80 million years ago, new research suggests. Scientists previously ...

How to plan a visit to Cumberland Gap National Historic Park in any season. Joshua Moore/Getty Images Cumberland Gap National Historical Park, located where Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia meet, is ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. "Mountains are an essential part of the landscape, but big ...

A dead supercontinent may be to blame. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Earth, like so many of its human inhabitants, may have ...

Instead, the new findings indicate that the hot blob, which sits 125 miles (200 kilometers) deep and stretches 220 miles (350 km) across New England, appeared around 80 million years ago, when what ...