Within the caves, the monochrome lifelessness of the desert gave way to an exuberance of color and movement. Thousands of Buddhas in every hue radiated across the grotto walls, their robes ...

Back home, Peter marked the puka, or cave entrance, on a digital map and planned to return later—with the landowner’s permission—to see where the opening might lead. Author Joshua Foer ...

The Thai cave complex where 12 boys and their football coach became trapped is a snaking system of caverns and crevices which posed a range of problems for rescuers. Some stretches of the Tham ...

Certain details about the rescue are only now coming to light After 17 days underground, all the Thai boys and their football coach have safely escaped from the Tham Luang cave complex.

Optimisticheskaya Cave, Ukraine: The longest gypsum cave in the world, Optimisticheskaya is known for its complex maze of passages. It's a dry cave system but contains many delicate gypsum crystals.

Our drive to understand the evolutionary history of life on Earth leads us to search for clues deep underground. Cave divers are at the forefront of this research, helping us access some of the ...

Arizona has numerous famous caves — some readily open to the public, some not. Some, like Kartchner Caverns, are renowned for their stunning beauty, filled with awe-inspiring formations that ...

When a recent visitor to Carlsbad Caverns National Park in New Mexico dropped a bag of Cheetos inside one of the caves, ...

Somewhere in the Koesberg Mountains of South Africa, located deep in the arid Karoo region north-east of Cape Town, there’s an exquisite cave painting of a curious creature. The creature ...

Register for 2025 now at tours@newscientist.com and we will contact you later this year with confirmed tour details. Discover some of the world's oldest known cave paintings in this idyllic part ...

Nick Cave has said that the way he views the world was “fundamentally changed” following the death of two of his sons. The ...