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 ...

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 ...

Imagine a world where mountains grow so high, they poke through the upper atmosphere and create a rocky maze for pilots to navigate. Maybe that world exists somewhere in the far reaches of the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. Pyeongchang County, site of the Winter Olympics 2018, is located ...

Pluto's snowcaps are born in reverse. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Mountains on Pluto have snowcaps that may have formed from ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 Green Mountains seem eternal, but they were not the first mountain range to cover Vermont. Wikimedia Commons photo by Niranjan Arminius Editor’s note: Mark Bushnell is a Vermont journalist and ...

Among the 63 national parks, Big Bend is the only one that encompasses an entire mountain range — the Chisos Mountains. Big Bend National Park in Texas takes its name from the abrupt curve of the Rio ...