On a dark December night in 1995, a routine commercial flight turned into one of the most devastating aviation disasters in ...

There’s nothing better than being in the mountains. The air is fresh and cool. The scenery is like the Lord of the Rings ...

Scientists have discovered that the southern Andes Mountains don't rise slowly and steadily as previously thought. Instead, ...

Chile's Atacama Desert, which gets less than 5 millimeters (0.2 inches) of rainfall each year, started to form more than 40 ...

Although being able to predict the date on which the next big earthquake will occur is still some way off becoming a reality, it is now possible to identify the areas where they will occur.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A notorious real-life 1972 plane crash in the Andes is the inspiration behind the new Netflix adventure drama "Society of the Snow ...

More than 30 years have passed since “Alive,” the movie based on the true story of the Uruguayan rugby team whose flight crashed in the Andes in 1972, forcing survivors to resort to cannibalism. Now, ...

A 9-mile tunnel through the Andes could redraw trade routes between Argentina, Chile, and the Pacific. See the plan.

Why do the Andes exist? Why is it not a place of lowlands or narrow seas? A geophysicist has been pondering these questions for more than a decade. Now, he has found the answers using an advanced ...