A man lost his life in 2005 attempting to recover the body of 20-year-old fellow diver who vanished a decade earlier ...

Archaeologists excavating a paleolithic cave site in Galilee, Israel, have found evidence that a deep-cave compound at the site may have been used for ritualistic gatherings, according to a new paper ...

Why it's incredible: The cave is so deep, the world's tallest building could fit inside it. The Hranice Abyss — or "Hranická propast," in Czech — is the deepest known freshwater cave in the world.

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 ...

Iceland is a country in a constant state of transformation, reshaped by ongoing volcanic eruptions, erosion, and shifting ice. And in October, a newly-formed ice cave was discovered on Langjökull, the ...

I'm a severe claustrophobe. After getting trapped in a slide in my local McDonald's at five years old, I swore off all tight and dark spaces forever. So it's not entirely surprising that I couldn't ...

(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 ...

On Sunday’s episode of The Excerpt podcast: Hidden beneath Earth’s surface are caverns and pathways that hold the secrets of our planet’s very beginnings. Even after decades of exploration, there are ...

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 ...