THE ancient Turkish city of Hierapolis hosts what is believed to be the oldest ‘Gate to Hell’ on Earth. It is a passage once ...

Europe is home to many beautiful landscapes. One of them in the east of the continent has been described as its Grand Canyon.

In 2022, a team of Chinese scientists dared to rappel down into a giant sinkhole in The South China Karst, … Continue reading ...

Whether sculpted by nature over millions of years or shaped by unique environmental conditions, these 30 unreal places in the ...

From the flamboyant blossoms and birds of rainforests to the living rainbows of coral reefs, Earth’s surface is teeming with ...

A perfectly preserved 40,000-year-old wolf head was found in the Siberian permafrost, offering new insights into ancient ...

A newly discovered blue hole has smashed depth records, plunging further into the Earth's crust than any known underwater ...

Another link between Hekla and hell came when the 16th-century German scholar Caspar Peucer claimed the gates to hell were ...

The sample extended so deep that it reached the bedrock beneath ... is a “time machine” that captures “an extraordinary archive of Earth’s climate,” said Carlo Barbante, coordinator ...

Air bubbles within a deep ice core drilled in Antarctica could reveal why Earth suddenly began to experience longer ice ages nearly 1 million years ago.

Analysis of the ancient ice is expected to show how Earth's atmosphere and climate have ... The latest drilling went 2.8 kilometers (about 1.7 miles) deep, with a team of 16 scientists and support ...

Ongoing changes in the magnetic field, like those seen in the South Atlantic Anomaly, could offer new insights into the processes occurring deep within Earth’s core. These observations not only help ...