The next morning we awoke to find that snow had fallen on the plateaus. The lake was black and dead calm. A fine white powder was sprinkled over the sides of the mountains, the tops of which were ...

Now, researchers have found that the Anatolian plateau in Turkey is undergoing a similar process. The findings could reveal how mountains and basins are built on planets like Venus or Mars ...

On the Silk Road, these lost twin cities may have sustained themselves in a foreboding landscape with metallurgy and commerce ...

These mountains are like wrinkles on the plateau but they play an important role in interacting with near-ground airflow and generating the gravity wave that is produced when airflow passes over ...

The archaeologists trekked along the riverbed and spotted burial sites along the way to the top of one of the mountains. Once there, a plateau dotted with strange mounds spread before them.