Stretching like a colossal spine along western South America, the Andes stand as the world's longest mountain range. It spans ...

Can one of the world's grandest mountain ranges also hold the memories of a country, including wrenching brutality and loss? Acclaimed Chilean filmmaker Patricio Guzmán takes on the world’s longest ...

Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 crashed in a remote location in Chile’s Andes Mountains on October 13, 1972—and those who made it through the crash would need to resort to desperate measures to survive ...

High in the Andes Mountains of Argentina and Chile, mining companies are scouring the landscape to look for copper, gold, lithium and cobalt deposits, among other lucrative ores. Most of these metals ...

Pacific absolute plate-motion change as obtained from a hotspot reference frame (red; from Wessel and Kroenke (2008)) versus as obtained from RPM analysis (blue; fixed Eurasia plate). Map shows the 30 ...

Archaeologist Adrián Oyaneder was reviewing satellite images of a valley in the Andean highlands of northern Chile when he ...

An archaeologist is piecing together what the V-shaped stone structures—some stretching 500 feet long—were used for.

EAGLE COUNTY ” Bryan Daino spent his mornings learning math on his laptop, and his afternoons snowboarding the Andes mountains. Daino, a Battle Mountain High School junior, was one of several Vail Ski ...

In 2022, researchers collected caterpillars off a plant in the arid highlands of the Andes Mountains of Chile, then patiently waited to see what they became. Two months later, adult moths, mostly ...

In and around the capital of Santiago, social unrest and the coronavirus pandemic have created a buyer’s market, with developers competing for clients. 17 Photos View Slide Show › By Roxana Popescu ...