For most organisms on Earth, rocks are objects, not food. But for one oddball microbe, desert limestone seems to have been on the menu. Whether or not this mysterious form of life still exists or went ...
In 1986, excavators surveying land for a power plant in Romania accidentally unearthed a strange cave. It had been sealed up ...
In our roundup of travel stories this week: the seven-foot “monster” that stalked West Virginia, the Roman tunnel where a hated emperor nearly met his end, and the enormous bunker city built by Nazis ...
Beneath the ancient village of Huqoq, archaeologists find 22 Roman coins hidden during the fourth-century Jewish revolt in ...
vast lava-carved tunnels that shouldn’t even exist there. These are not modest cavities. They are some of the most enormous underground structures ever found in the solar system. “Earth lava tubes ...
New research presented at the Europlanet Science Congress 2025 in Helsinki suggests that Venus may be concealing some of the largest lava-carved tunnels ever discovered in the solar system. The ...
A pair of enormous earth-chewing machines will soon carve out the first major subway tunnel constructed through downtown ...
The tunnel is more than 250 feet below the Earth's surface and is designed to capture and treat sewer overflow to keep it from going into local waterways.