While exploring caves along a riverbank, a group followed a tunnel that quickly led deep underground. The passage opened into massive chambers filled with crystal formations and towering limestone ...

(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 ...

Looking for an adventure that’s cool (literally) and completely out of the ordinary? The United States is home to some of the world’s most fascinating cave systems, each with its own story carved by ...

On this episode, we hear how a team of researchers at the University of Northern Iowa is exploring the deepest caves in the U.S. with NASA funding. This could inform the search for life on other ...

There’s something about cave exploring that intimidates me. Perhaps it’s venturing below ground or the feeling of being enclosed, but the whole experience strikes me as a bit off-putting. That being ...

When Aidan Ward answered his phone from a clearing off the side of a road in southern New Mexico, he was exactly where he wanted to be: helping a geologist friend with cave research at Carlsbad ...

Cave City, the home to Mammoth Cave National Park, is giving visitors reason to stop and explore. Cave City in Barren County is home to Mammoth Cave National Park. Over the years, the city has gone ...

Deep in a cave near the town of Toirano in northern Italy, archaeologists have uncovered ancient human hand and footprints that are 14,000 years old. Publishing their findings in the journal eLife, ...

Archaeologists have found a prehistoric human skeleton deep inside a flooded cave system on Mexico’s Caribbean coast. Cave-diving archaeologist Octavio del Río tells The Associated Press that the team ...