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 ...

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.

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 ...

In Death Valley, there’s a flat, remote area called Racetrack Playa with a truly bizarre natural phenomenon: hundreds of stones that appear to gradually move themselves over time. The real ...

SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — For decades, the enigmatic “sailing stones” of Racetrack Playa in Death Valley National Park have captivated scientists and visitors alike. There are large rocks ...

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 ...

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 ...