On September 5, 2024, NASA’s Curiosity rover achieved a historic milestone by capturing the first-ever image of Earth alongside Phobos, one of Mars' moons, from the surface of the Red Planet.

As Earth scientists, we look to how natural processes have recycled carbon from atmosphere to Earth and back in the past to find possible answers to this question. Our new research published in Nature ...

The feature in the image is 28 miles (45 km) across and made up of igneous and sedimentary rocks. NASA/Earth Observatory 18. Sea and cloud Earth seen from space, with oceans and clouds filling the ...

The image shows Phobos on the left and Earth on the right. The scene shows the sky over Texoli, a butte on lower Mount Sharp, a 3-mile-tall mountain that Curiosity has been ascending since 2014.

One idea is that the mountains are parts of the lower mantle that have been superheated due to their proximity with Earth's incandescent core. While the mantle can reach 3,700C (6,692F), this is ...

The tallest mountain on Earth — measured not by elevation above sea level but rather from base to peak — is Mauna Kea in Hawaii, standing 33,481 feet (10,205 meters) in height.

A video shared on social media in June 2024 claimed to depict a sea serpent monster known as the "leviathan."The clip showed what appeared to be Google Earth or Maps data of an island that, when ...

Carved into the rugged Hejaz Mountains in Saudi Arabia, Desert Rock, by Oppenheim Architecture, provides a luxurious getaway for well-heeled tourists, and includes cliff-hanging villas and private ...

The highest mountain ranges are created by tectonic plates pushing together and forcing the ground up where they meet. This is how the mountains of the Himalayas in Asia were formed. Image caption, ...

The claim: Images of Brazilian rock formation show global sea levels haven't risen since 1880. A June 1 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) shows three images of Sugarloaf Mountain, a peak ...

Over the past century, the Earth’s average surface temperature has surged approximately 1.2°C, causing glaciers to recede and sea levels to rise at an alarming rate.

NASA has captured a breathtaking image of Arsia Mons, one of Mars' most massive volcanoes, towering nearly twice the height of any mountain on Earth. Captured at dawn by the 2001 Mars Odyssey ...