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It's a bit of fun, even if for the vast majority the answer was "somewhere in an ocean". But would it be possible to dig through the Earth and pop out the other side?

Workers at the drilling site for a geothermal energy plant in Neustadt-Glewe, Germany. Jens Büttner/picture alliance via Getty Images When I was a kid, I liked to dig holes in my backyard in ...

In one of the world’s most ambitious geoscience projects to date, Chinese engineers have begun drilling a 10,000-meter vertical borehole into the Earth’s crust. The operation, launched in May 2024, is ...

China has started drilling a 6.2 mile (10,000-meter) superdeep borehole into the Earth’s crust. The drilling in May, 2023 in China’s large oil-bearing basin – the Tarim Basin of northwest China’s ...

Rescuers have failed to find 2-year-old Sajid, who is trapped in a deep borehole in Rajshahi’s Tanore Upazila, even after digging throughout the night. The Fire Service resumed excavation work after ...