Asteroid 2011 UL21 is 1.4 miles wild, according to Space Reference, making it larger than 99% of all known near-Earth objects and roughly comparable to Mount Everest. Asteroid 2011 UL21 passed ...

Scientists uncover colossal mountains 100x taller than Everest hidden 1,200 miles beneath Earth's surface, reshaping our ...

At around 620 miles high, these subsurface “islands of rock” stand more than 100 times higher than Mount Everest’s summit of around 5.5 miles, ...

Nepal is raising the permit fees to climb Mount Everest from $11,000 to $15,000. Income from the fees is a key source of ...

These mountains, known as "Large Low Seismic Velocity Provinces" or LLSVPs, sit on the boundary between Earth's core and ...

A powerful earthquake struck Tibet this week, estimated between 6.8 and 7.1 magnitude. Its effects were devastating. Witnesses shared footage of rubble-strewn streets of a city in the Himalayas region ...

Nepal’s decision to increase permit fees for climbing Mount Everest signals a critical shift in its approach to managing the ...

More than 340 people have died trying to climb Mount Everest, according to Nepalese officials, so finding human remains on the mountain is not exactly uncommon. However, the discovery of a frozen ...