Martian winds can have quite an impact. ESA's Mars Express has spotted them whipping up sand grains and acting as a cosmic ...

There aren't many places on the planet where you can see both active volcanoes and massive glaciers. This Icelandic national ...

Despite the many architectural achievements of the human race, none – no matter how big or how high – can incite the raw awe ...

Popocatépetl emerged in the crater of other volcanoes in its current form more than 20,000 years ago and has been active ...

Formed by a volcanic collapse thousands of years ago, Crater Lake sits within a vast caldera in Oregon. Its clarity and depth ...

Everyone switched off their headlamps and there we stood together in total darkness, inside the San Gabriel Mountains. Yes, inside. I had joined a local caving group in an attempt to understand more ...

REEs such as niobium, tantalum and ytterbium have been discovered in igneous rock layers – similar to the discovery (and ...

Studying oak leaves and the shadows they cast, the team translated those organic forms into architecture. ‘The roof was ...

Most of the world’s volcanoes that pose a risk to humans already have detailed maps of their interiors, but not Popocatépetl ...