The Rocky Mountains have always looked like a geological non sequitur, a towering spine of peaks sitting far from the ...

The North American craton actually dips near the Rockies rather than forming a sharp vertical step as previously believed.

Venezuela’s recent political upheavals can be understood within both the contemporary political developments and ...

Some movie buffs might know the old song “Let’s call the whole thing off” by George and Ira Gershwin, sung by Ginger Rogers ...

In a paper published in Earth and Planetary Physics, an international team of researchers studied the magnetic properties of ...

A viral travel clip offers a breathtaking look at Peru's Rainbow Mountains and their surreal natural colours. Here are the ...

When an astronaut aboard the International Space Station snapped this photograph of Lago Argentino in Patagonia on December ...

Imagine hearing a sound that began its journey before our galaxy even existed. That is what astronomers are doing now. They are picking up faint signa.

High in the Peruvian Andes, a serrated stripe of pits cuts across a barren hillside, so regular and extensive that early pilots mistook it for something almost mechanical. For decades, the “Band of ...

MOCOA, Colombia—This isn’t the first time foreigners have shown up here, where the Andes Mountains meet the Amazon rainforest, insisting they needed what was under the ground. First it was gold, ...