New research suggests melting ice sheets are warming global temperatures which may speed up continental drift, creating ...

Battered by Antarctic storms in the southern Andes at the very tip of Chile, I met my biggest mental outdoor challenge yet on ...

Seismic waves from earthquakes have always offered a window into Earth’s hidden interior. For decades, researchers believed ...

Scientists found new evidence that Earth’s crust is peeling underneath the Sierra Nevada in California. The process might be how the continents formed, they say.

A flurry of seismic activity that caused 160 quakes in just two hours at the Laguna del Maule volcanic field in central Chile ...

A flurry of seismic activity that caused 160 quakes in just two hours at the Laguna del Maule volcanic field in central Chile ...

Deep beneath the mountains of the Himalayas, something remarkable is taking place. The vast, rocky plate supporting India, ...

This season is set in the Andes Mountains of Argentina while contestants try for their shot at a $500,000 grand prize. Tune in for free with Philo. Who are the final four on The Challenge All ...

Cambodia's Angkor Wat is the largest religious temple in the world. Peru's Andes mountains' Machu Picchu is an iconic Incan citadel.

"The Andes Mountains, 287 miles [462 kilometers] away, and although taller than the plane's altitude, lay below the sensible horizon, marked by the white horizontal line in the photograph," NASA ...

Why it's incredible: The mountains' folded rocks form stunning ... The bunching of the land by plate tectonics was followed by intense erosion, which wiped away any sediment covering the colorful ...