The Pingshan Lake Grand Canyon features undulating terrain that resembles the rippling ocean floor. TONG YUNSHAN/CHINA DAILY In the Hexi Corridor, an ancient trade route in Northwest China, its ...

The first global atlas of Martian watersheds reveals 16 huge ancient river systems that once shaped Mars and may hold clues ...

Mars has long been framed as a cold, dry desert, but new research is revealing a planet laced with hidden ice and glacial ...

Constructed in the 1930s, the dam at Lake Bronson had deteriorated to the point where it was considered dangerous and needed to be replaced.

Several iconic places from Kerala now have a second home on Mars. The International Astronomical Union (IAU) on Nov. 24 announced that several geological features on the Red Planet will now carry ...

Victoria is home to its fair share of natural wonders – from the Twelve Apostles to the Grampians – but there’s one particular landmark that’s a lot less well-known, but absolutely worth a place on ...

Abstract: It had been proved that the trends of the mountains, the shapes of the rivers, even the distribution of the various plants had the characteristics of fractal. Fractal and multi-fractal can ...

Blessed with an extensive network of rivers and lakes, a unique natural ecosystem, and robust functions for sustaining life that releases oxygen, sequesters carbon, and purifies the environment, the ...

How do rivers choose their paths? Why do some rivers form single channels, while others divide into many threads? The questions may sound simple, but they are plagued by dynamic and complex forces ...

A new study reveals Mars once hosted sprawling river systems longer than the Amazon, completely reshaping what we thought we knew about its climate and potential for life. Mars once had river systems ...