Scientists say caves on Mars and icy moons may host microbial life and serve as future habitats for astronauts to be sent to ...

His body was discovered 1,100 meters deep in the world's deepest cave in Abkhazia, Georgia, nine months after the climber ...

From lava tubes on Mars to ice pockets on Europa, subterranean environments may offer the best chance of finding life—and living safely—beyond our planet. “I was like, ‘OK, I'm pretty sure that ...

TERRELL COUNTY, Texas — A researcher was rescued from one of Texas' deepest known caves, according to the Texas Game Wardens. In a social media post, the Texas Game Wardens say a team was conducting ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: iStock Microbes surviving without any light in a New Mexico cave system are photosynthesizing using invisible light, ...

The body was discovered in the record-breaking cave, 7,257 feet below the surface in Abkhazia, Georgia, nine months after he ...

A researcher was rescued from a 567-foot cave in Texas during a daring research expedition. On Saturday, Feb. 15, a team of 18 researchers made their way to the bottom of Sorcerer’s Cave to study its ...

In 1965, a diver named Jim Houtz dove into a desert pool in Nevada and descended to over 300 feet without reaching the bottom. To date, no one has been able to figure out how deep that cave actually ...

Could Homo sapiens and an archaic and now-extinct species of early human have lived alongside each other on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi more than 65,000 years ago? This is the question posed by ...

A remotely operated vehicle exploring a dark limestone cave 385 meters beneath the ocean surface near a remote Japanese ...