Seventeen years ago, two brothers who worked for Industrias Peñoles were mining a tunnel underneath the Naica Mountain in Chihuahua, Mexico. They accidentally stumbled upon the Sistine Chapel of ...

Microbes found in Mexico’s Cave of Crystals could be up to 50,000 years old, according to researchers with the NASA Astrobiological Institute. The researchers have confirmed the microbes had been ...

Microbes that may be between 10,000 and 50,000 years old have been revived from the inside of enormous, glittering crystals from a Mexican cave. The microbes come from the Cave of the Crystals within ...

In January 2006 Speleoresearch & Films and the Team la Venta started a three year exploration campain to discover the Naica cave, Chihuahua, Messico. "It seems like walking into an oven. You're hit by ...

Atlas Obscura on Slate is a blog about the world’s hidden wonders. Like us on Facebook and Tumblr, or follow us on Twitter. In 2000, two miners drilling an excavation tunnel below Chihuahua, Mexico, ...

These huge gypsum crystals in Mexico's Naica caves, some up to 12m long, have been growing for tens of thousands of years -- but scientists have only now discovered what's inside them. "We've ...

Penelope Boston, then a professor at New Mexico Tech, sits on a giant selenite crystal in the Naica Mine in Chihuahua, Mexico, with colleague Danielle Winget. In 2009, Boston and her team used sterile ...

Crystals are the new black, and for good reason. The powerful minerals not only help balance out our energetic fields, thanks to their nearly perfect molecular structures, but they’re also just ...

Our planet is teeming with life which can often be found hiding secretly in the remotest of corners and in the least expected places. Scientists have now discovered crystals that are trapped in a ...