A Taunton serviceman has completed a challenging 80-mile trek to the Base Camp of Mount Everest to raise money for the RAF Benevolent Fund.

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

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

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

Evidence from ancient rocks in South Africa's Barberton Greenstone Belt reveals that despite the initial devastation, life ...

Everest explorers had found the suspected foot of Andrew "Sandy" Irvine, who disappeared on the mountain alongside his ...

The study shows that meteorite impacts, while often seen as destructive, may have actually benefited early life on Earth.

Doctors did not think he would live but if he did, he would never walk, talk, eat, or breathe by himself. But five years on ...

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

A British mountaineer who at age 23 became the youngest female to climb the 14 tallest mountains in the world says ...

Ed Viesturs is considered by many America's greatest living mountaineer. Don’t get him started on hoaky Guinness World ...

On Oct. 24-27 a crowd of people will descend on Stratton with the intention of repeatedly scaling the mountain as part of an ...