Deep Fission is betting that the safest place for a nuclear reactor is not behind thicker concrete walls but a mile beneath our feet. The California startup wants to sink compact power plants into ...

The Earth beneath our feet holds secrets that continue to baffle archaeologists, scientists, and explorers alike. Every year, excavations and accidental discoveries reveal ancient civilizations, ...

Underneath a granite hill in southern China, a massive detector is nearly complete that will sniff out the mysterious ghost particles lurking around us. The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory ...

Deep below the surface in South Dakota, construction crews have been working tirelessly to carve out a network of caverns and tunnels that one day will house a huge neutrino experiment. Their efforts ...

There are many bunkers and facilities that are very deep underground. Iran has its Furdow Nuclear Facility which is 80 meters under hard rock and special hardened cement. Iran claims to have built a ...

State and federal leaders descended one mile underground in South Dakota to celebrate the next phase of the Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility/Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment—an international ...