Weathered, historic diamond-find ledgers, fossilised oyster shells, mineralised rock formations, salt deposits and old rusted ...

The Richtersveld in the Northern Cape is known for its harsh, arid conditions, extreme temperatures, sweeping valleys and rugged mountains and is home to the succulent Karoo – a biodiversity ...

Whether you’re craving the solitude of mountains, the quiet of a desert ... For those who truly want to escape the modern world, the Richtersveld Transfrontier Park offers a stark, beautiful ...

"It's pretty surreal to walk between two major pieces of Earth's crust that are drifting in different directions," Brooke ...

The rover's 26th sample, known as "Silver Mountain," has textures "unlike anything we've seen before," NASA says.

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — A mountain in New Zealand considered an ancestor by Indigenous people was recognized as a legal person Thursday after a new law granted it all the rights and ...

Researchers used drone imagery to analyze the full scope of a massive, 3,000-year-old fortress in the Caucasus mountains. Digitally stitching together 11,000 images, they created a complete map of ...

One summer, when I still had baby teeth, my dad and I got caught in a ripper of a thunderstorm in the White Mountain National Forest. The rain pounded us mercilessly, soaking our clothes and no ...

Assuming said valley is not shrouded in fog, the first thing your visitor says is something akin to, “Oh, look at the mountains! What’s that one called?” Is your answer: A. (Pushing back ...

A 5900-year-old whitebark pine forest has been discovered due to the melting of alpine ice in the Rocky mountains. Scientists found more than 30 trees approximately 3100 metres above sea level ...

The Mountain Meadows Massacre was a brutal attack on more than a hundred emigrants en route to California in the 1850s. The wagon train party was attacked by Mormon militias at Mountain Meadows ...

Why it's incredible: The mountain looks like a human-made pyramid. A mountain that's hidden in a sea of snow in Antarctica looks strikingly like an ancient Egyptian pyramid when viewed from above.