More than 340 people have died trying to climb Mount Everest, according to Nepalese officials, so finding human remains on the mountain is not exactly uncommon. However, the discovery of a frozen ...

Here’s how it works. Mount Everest is the world's tallest mountain as measured from sea level. But will it hold that title forever? To answer this question, first we must understand how ...

A new study suggests a meteorite the size of not one, but FOUR Mt. Everests may have aided the ... as a bright fireball streaked across the night sky. Or perhaps the 4-inch by 6-inch meteorite ...

If we are lucky, it could show up as a blue streak in the northern hemisphere night sky. Samuel Grant at University College London and Geraint Jones at the European Space Agency say there is a ...

A meteorite four times the size of Everest hit Earth some 3.26 billion years ago (Victoria Jones/PA) Ancient life on Earth might have thrived after a meteorite four times the size of Mount Everest ...

In 1953, Sherpa Tenzing Norgay and Sir Edmund Hillary became the first two people confirmed to have summitted the world's tallest mountain, Mount Everest ... dinner at night, he [Norgay] stood ...