In one of the most baffling discoveries of the last decade, scientists have found a clue in a cave to how life might survive ...

Imagine entering a cave and not realizing that beneath your feet lies a bottomless pit that could plunge you to great depths. Such was the Veryovkina Cave, the deepest-known cave on Earth, in the ...

Deep inside a massive cave plunging more than 500 feet below the surface, explorers made an unexpected discovery. Ancient ...

(via MinuteEarth) Krubera Cave, one of our planet’s deepest known caves, extends 2200 meters into the earth – that’s a depth of nearly six Empire State Buildings. Or at least, that's as far down as ...

CEDAR FALLS, Iowa (KCRG) - A team of researchers at the University of Northern Iowa (UNI) is exploring some of the deepest caves in the country to learn more about life in extreme environments. The ...

Rescuers pulled an American researcher out of a Turkish cave early Tuesday, more than a week after he became seriously ill 1,000 meters (more than 3,000 feet) below its entrance, the Speleological ...

A new study, presented at the 17th International Congress of the Geological Society of Greece in May, found a "significant" amount of blue and transparent microplastics present in the Gourgouthakas ...

When Aidan Ward answered his phone from a clearing off the side of a road in southern New Mexico, he was exactly where he wanted to be: helping a geologist friend with cave research at Carlsbad ...