A giant meteorite first discovered in 2014 caused a tsunami bigger than any in known human history and may have sparked life, ...

Mount Everest is the world's tallest and perhaps most famed peak. It draws seasoned and amateur climbers alike and ...

A century after his death, George Mallory's final words went on display in Cambridge. A century after he died trying to ...

More than 340 people have died trying to climb Mount Everest, according to Nepalese officials, so finding human remains on ...

Mount Everest, towering at 8.85 kilometers above sea level, is still increasing in height, according to recent findings.

She has Mount Everest (29,032 feet) in her sights again, but first she’s looking to stay in the U.S. and scale the highest ...

A huge space rock four times the size of Mount Everest named S2 is thought to have crashed into Earth around 3.26 billion ...

In 1997, after three previous attempts, Brigitte Muir became the first Australian woman to reach the top of Mount Everest. As ...

An area dubbed “Rainbow Valley” may sound like a happy place but when it comes to Mount Everest, it is far from it.

Mount Everest, known as Chomolungma in Tibetan and Sagarmatha in Nepali, is the world’s tallest mountain at 29,032 feet above ...

Now, National Geographic reports that one of its documentary teams found a boot (complete with severed foot) with a sock ...

Cataclysmic cosmic collisions may have benefited the evolution of primitive organisms early in Earth's history, a study says.