Deep subsurface microbes are highly diverse, challenging assumptions about life in low-energy environments. This discovery ...

Researchers studying decades of earthquake data say they have found the first evidence that, in addition to spinning backward ...

Ancient volcanoes in New South Wales created a rich deposit of precious rare earths – and left clues for finding more.

Barkwill combs through a “swack” of government websites and searches things like Google Earth to find abandoned ... longer once he’s deep in a mine compared to the entrance, that means ...

development and innovation to make mining safer, healthier and more productive, the sector, especially in South Africa with the world’s deepest mines, is one of the oldest industrialised mining ...

Scientists of course cannot cut into Earth and directly observe its insides. Instead, their knowledge is inferred from the ...

What creatures lurk in the pitch-black oceans of Challenger Deep? The deepest part of the Earth’s oceans is a portion of the ...

Seismic waves suggest the planet's solid inner core is being pulled out of shape – and it has undergone these changes over ...

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

It’s easy to say you’d love to to really visit Middle-earth. It’s a wondrous place full of natural beauty and amazing architecture. But you know what else it has? Darkness. And orcs.

The veteran HOV can now officially dive deeper into the sea, broadening the horizons of scientific discoveries under the ...