A recent discovery on Mars has revealed something truly fascinating: massive water-carved caves that might just be hiding ...

Earth not only does not support diverse ecosystems, but it also has places that serve as analogs for other celestial worlds in our solar system. Astrobiologist Joshua Sebree of the University of ...

What can lava tubes on Earth teach us about finding life on Mars? This is a recent study published in Communications Earth & Environment hopes to address as an international team of researchers ...

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 Earth’s surface lies a world so extreme and isolated that it seems more like an alien planet than part of our own. Veryovkina Cave, the deepest known cave on Earth, plunges a staggering ...

Ancient Homo sapiens may have benefited from sunscreen, tailored clothes and the use of caves during the shifting of the magnetic North Pole over Europe about 41,000 years ago, new University of ...

Somewhat akin to astronomical dark matter (the unseen stuff thought to make up some 80 percent of all matter in the cosmos), so-called microbiological ‘dark matter’ here on Earth poses almost as much ...

Some of the most breathtaking moments of the “Planet Earth” series take place in Hang son Doong Cave in Vietnam. But capturing and showcasing the natural beauty of the largest cave in the world ...

Robin Smith receives funding from the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC). Using radar, a Nasa spacecraft, Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), has confirmed the existence of caves beneath ...