To make Earth into a black hole ... We're finally getting to some of the largest black holes in the universe, and yet we haven't reached one that surpasses the size of our solar system.

America might have landed on the moon, but Russia drilled the deepest man-made hole on Earth. Since the early 1960s, scientists have attempted to drill down to the Earth's mantle. It took 20 years ...

Why it's incredible: Evidence suggests it could be the greatest known impact crater on Earth. The Wilkes Land crater is a hole in the bedrock beneath East Antarctica's ice sheet measuring 315 ...

The largest known black hole jets, 23 million light years across ... In other words, it appears to be the largest when viewed from Earth. The new jet, announced in the journal Nature, has been ...

The largest hole ever observed in the ozone layer over ... The ozone layer shields the Earth from most of the Sun's ultraviolet radiation, which is a major cause of skin cancer.

The laser instruments operated by the international LIGO-VIRGO Collaboration have caught the gravitational waves emanating from the cataclysmic union of two black holes. One was 66 times the mass ...

While it's much smaller than the largest supermassive black holes detected, it's still a whopper considering how early in the history of the universe it appeared.

To create the first photo of a black hole, scientists analysed signals from ... create a virtual radio antenna almost the size of the Earth itself, enabling astronomers to pick up faint signals ...