The United States leads the globe with 165 Holocene volcanoes, followed by Japan and Russia. These nations, situated along ...

A mysterious formation in South America leaves visitors wondering whether this "Egyptian Sphinx" is a work of human hands or ...

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THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: For decades, the joke has been that Neil Armstrong was beaten to the moon by a Malayali tea vendor. But ...

The Andes Mountains are the world's longest mountain range. Learn which South American countries the massive Andes Mountains ...

What makes it surreal: geothermal pools in bright orange, green, and sulphur yellow created by mineral-heavy volcanic water.

Dhaulagiri I, also known as the White Mountain, is the 7th-highest peak in Nepal. Learn its Sanskrit meaning, its unique ...

Situated between forests and fault lines, this northern California wilderness offers open skies, barely any crowd, and basic, ...

China has quietly confirmed that a vast circular scar in its northeast is not a volcanic basin or a quirk of erosion, but a ...

Far beneath the waves of the southwest Pacific, scientists have finished charting a landmass so large and so coherent that it ...

The specimen containing Scoriaceous Lava collected during Darwin’s legendary voyage aboard H.M.S. Beagle (1831–1836) will be ...

Nicknamed the “lighthouse of the Mediterranean” for its steady towering glow, Stromboli is one of seven volcanic islands that make up the Aeolian archipelago off Sicily’s northern coast. Barely a ...