Each stalactite takes thousands of years to form ... a man with a selfie stick broke off the end of the chandelier-shaped ...

Scientists now think the Earth’s story began around 4.6 billion years ago in a disk-shaped cloud of dust and gas rotating around the early sun, made up of material left behind after the sun’s ...

The accretion hypothesis proposes that the Moon was created along with Earth at its formation. The fission theory suggests Earth had been spinning so fast that some material broke away and began to ...

Habit formation is the process by which behaviors become automatic. Habits can form without a person intending to acquire them, but they can also be deliberately cultivated—or eliminated—to ...

The basalt rock formation in Fingal's Cave on the island of Staffa Staffa can only be accessed by boat and is popular with tourists, who not only visit the cave, but also watch the island’s ...

Once submerged under the sea millions of years ago, the Cayman Crystal Caves were shaped by water erosion, creating rooms filled with stalagmite and stalactite formations. Over time, dripping ...

A narrow rock formation separates the Twin Lagoons, popular swimming holes filled with a freshwater-saltwater mix in Busuanga Island, Palawan. Photograph by HOLGS / Getty Images Named after the ...

Karstified rocks typically have dissolutionally enhanced fractures or bedding planes, and the process of karstification continues with the formation ... variations under a stalactite of the ...

At 21 feet, 3 inches, this stalactite can be found in the Throne ... The world’s largest formation of brushite moonmilk is in ...

Depending on where they form, tropical storms are also known as hurricanes, cyclones and typhoons. Tropical storms form over warm oceans and travel from east to west. Tropical storms bring with ...

During their annual exploration of the non-accessible part of the Angitis River Cave, members of the Speleological Team of the Hellenic Mountaineering Club of ...