The colorful swirls and stripes that characterize China's Rainbow Mountains would have remained hidden without the epic ...

The Transylvanian Alps provide visitors with abundant wildlife, UNESCO World Heritage sites, and quaint villages—without the ...

A team of dozens spent weeks in the Rwenzori Mountains capturing drone photography, GPS coordinates, and ground-penetrating ...

From prehistoric paths dating back to the Neolithic period to walking routes used by Buddhist monks and tea merchants, these ...

Millions of years ago, as the Indo-Australian plate pushed into the Pacific plate, a volcanic arc of islands began to emerge ...

The most detailed map to date of the landscape beneath Antarctica's ice sheet has been assembled by a team of international scientists led by the British Antarctic Survey (BAS). Known as Bedmap3 ...

The Sahara desert in North Africa has a number of distinct physical features, including ergs, regs, hamadas and oases. Ergs, which cover 20% of the Sahara, are sand dunes that stretch for hundreds of ...

IN the modern age, it's hard to imagine that there's anywhere on Earth that we haven't fully explored. But there are surprisingly large chunks of Earth that civilisation has yet to fully probe.