China has launched an ambitious initiative to develop world-leading drilling technologies and equipment, aiming to secure its energy future and explore the Earth’s deep interior. As part of a ...

At an extreme water depth of 7 kilometers, the team used the Japanese drilling vessel Chikyu to drill a series of deep boreholes ... challenge is reentering the hole. There is no motor or anything ...

Brightstar Resources has recorded a best hit of 20.39m at 3.03g/t gold in final assays from last year’s diamond drilling ...

"We did it," study coauthor Frieder Klein, a member of the drilling expedition at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution ... that are spreading apart. This process spews up molten magma that ...