Astrobiologist Joshua Sebree of the University of Northern Iowa suggests that South Dakota's Wind Cave exhibits chemical ...

Inside Wind Cave the scientists found that chemicals fossilised within the rocks shine in brilliant hues of pink, blue, and ...

Findings about the chemical makeup of cave systems can teach us about life in places humans have yet to reach.

Deep below Earth's surface, rock and mineral formations lay hidden with a secret brilliance. Under a black light, the ...

Scientists are using these fluorescent features to understand how ... ended up hundreds of feet underground investigating the minerals and lifeforms in these dark, cold conditions.

Fluorescent caves deep below America show how alien life could exist on one of Jupiter's moons, say scientists. The chemistry ...

Fluorescent caves on Earth may hold the secrets to survival necessary for scientists to detect life elsewhere in the universe.