The 700-pound stones slide across Death Valley unassisted. — -- The mystery of the sailing stones has been solved. For years, enormous stones have been moving across the Racetrack Playa of ...

In a study published in 2014, scientists finally captured the movement of the sailing stones.The researchers fitted 15 rocks with motion-activated GPS instruments and installed a time-lapse camera ...

The Sailing Stones of Death Valley National Park have been studied by scientists since the early 20th century. But it took until 2014 to get an answer.

The dry lakebed of Racetrack Playa in Death Valley National Park, California, had garnered attention. There were many fascinating things around the site, but what surprised people the most were ...

As long ago as the 1940s, the mysterious moving rocks of Death Valley National Park's Racetrack Playa have stumped scientists. How stones as heavy as 35 pounds (16kg) can bulldoze their way across ...

Scientists have studied these “sailing stones” since the 1940s, proposing a range of mechanisms — including dust devils, flooding, and large ice sheets — that might be responsible.

Not all of the stones in Death Valley move. Those that do only move every two to three years, and they don't all move at the same time or in the same direction.

One of these age-old mysteries, the sailing stones of Death Valley, fell into this category -- until now. A team of scientists have solved the mystery, and even caught it on video.

In Death Valley’s Racetrack Playa, 320-Kilogram "Sailing Stones" Move All On ... once and for all by strapping GPS trackers to some boulders and recording them with time-lapse cameras.

Reporting from Death Valley National Park, Calif. — The cracking sounds were ferocious. An ankle-deep, frozen lake in Death Valley National Park was breaking apart under sunny skies. As cousins ...

Ending a half-century of geological speculation, scientists have finally seen the process that causes rocks to move atop Racetrack Playa, a desert lake bed in the mountains above Death Valley ...

Location: Death Valley National Park, California. Coordinates: 36.68167631035219, -117.56270022604872. Why it's incredible: The playa is home to "sailing stones" that seem to move of their own ...