To examine this, Dirk Wagner and colleagues collected deep subsurface soil samples from the Yungay Valley portion of the ...

About a 20-minute drive north of the industrial town of Timmins, Ontario, the ground gives way to a gaping pit stretching more than 100 meters across. This pit is the most recognizable feature of Kidd ...

Their findings reveal a previously unknown deep biosphere beneath hyper-arid desert soils, potentially extending downwards for an indefinite distance. Read more: UNESCO World Heritage Sites in ...