Cave explorers have traversed what’s now the deepest known cave in Australia. On Saturday a group of explorers discovered a 401-metre-deep cave, which they named Delta Variant, in Tasmania’s ...

Deep below Earth's surface, rock and mineral formations lay hidden with a secret brilliance. Under a black light, the chemicals fossilized within shine in brilliant hues of pink, blue and green.

There's some complex chemistry behind a cave's stalactites and stalagmites. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Stalactites and ...

Gabriel C Rau has received funding from the NSW Government (Australia), the European Commission, the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the German federal government. Cave explorers have traversed ...

South Australia's Naracoorte Caves is one of the world's best fossil sites, containing a record spanning more than half a million years. Among the remains preserved in layers of sand are the bones of ...

Fluorescent caves deep below America show how alien life could exist on one of Jupiter's moons, say scientists. The chemistry in Wind Cave, South Dakota, means that, under an ultraviolet (UV) light, ...

Mars skylights like this could be the mouths of caves formed by lava tubes. NASA wants to explore them. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / Univ. of Arizona Ever since scientists have had an orbiter's view ...

Beneath the surface of an otherwise unassuming National Park, a labyrinth showcases hundreds of millions of years of geologic history. Each shade of tan layered on the walls represents a different era ...

During the week, Ciara Smart is a PhD candidate in history at the University of Tasmania. On the weekends, she’s a member of a caving club that discovered the deepest cave in Australia over the ...