The Earth's crust varies in thickness from about 5 to 75 km (3 to 47 miles), with the thinnest parts tending to be way out in the deep ocean. The deepest hole humanity has ever managed to drill is ...

Scientists have dug the deepest hole ever in rock from Earth's mantle, drilling more than 4,160 feet in the North Atlantic ocean. The team of researchers used an ocean drilling vessel to dig into ...

The deepest hole ever dug by humans dates back to the Cold War, however, when there was a race between the superpowers to drill as far into the Earth's crust as possible. The Soviets managed to ...

For that to happen, we need better access to this ultra-hot water from Earth’s core. That’s where millimeter wave drilling comes in. Currently, the world’s deepest drilled hole is the Kola ...

It is the deepest man-made hole on the planet - but after ... also wanted to get closer to the centre of Earth, which resulted in the vast drilling competition to discover the secrets believed ...

US start-up plans on toppling Soviet record for deepest hole ever drilled to unlock huge amounts of geothermal power from Earth's core Underground lightning is one of the many perils of using fusion ...

China has begun drilling a hole over 10,000 meters (32,808 feet) deep into the Earth's crust. The project will provide data on the Earth's internal structure. Chinese President Xi Jinping named ...

The hole will eventually reach ... came just weeks after China began drilling another super deep borehole which is slated to extend even further into the Earth with a planned depth of 11,100 ...

Beneath our feet is an almost limitless source of energy, but while a few lucky locations have geothermal heat close to the surface, the rest of the world will need to dig a lot deeper. The ...