Deep subsurface microbes are highly diverse, challenging assumptions about life in low-energy environments. This discovery has implications for medicine, energy efficiency, and astrobiology. Which ...

Two colossal canyons on the moon, both deeper than the Grand Canyon, were formed in under ten minutes by surges of high-speed rock debris, as per reports. These valleys, named Vallis Schrödinger and ...

Rat-hole mining is banned by the Supreme Court. But its practice persists under the noses of government officials and ...

The depths of Earth have puzzled the scientific community for millennia. For many years, we only had access to natural holes, ...

The rover's 26th sample, known as "Silver Mountain," has textures "unlike anything we've seen before," NASA says.

Exploring the transformation of Earth from a volcanic hellscape to a potential birthplace of life during the Hadean era.

How amazing that from up above, Earth appears round and smooth, yet its oceans can have craters so deep they could hide the ...

A record-breaking deep earthquake registered in May 2015 offshore of Japan likely was not a tectonic event but triggered by a ...

Running at a staggering depth of 3,891 metres down and 2,062 metres below sea level, a colossal mine in Africa is the deepest and richest gold mine in the world. Mponeng gold mine began producing ...

Africa boasts one of the world's richest cities that stands comparison with other financial metropolises such as London or New York. Often known as the City of Gold, Johannesburg in South Africa ...

South African police ended a rescue operation at an abandoned gold mine on Wednesday and said they ... for months in one of the country’s deepest mines while working illegally.