T he Xiaozhai Tiankeng, often called the “Heavenly Pit,” stands as the planet’s largest and deepest known sinkhole. This extraordinary geological formation located in southwestern China has ...

A major tourist attraction in southern China was devastated by a fire on Sunday afternoon but there were no reports of fatalities. Many of the historic houses in Xiaozhai village on Guangxi’s ...

Xiaozhai Tiankeng, or the Xiaozhai Heavenly Pit, measures roughly 537 meters (1,762 feet) in diameter and sinks between 511 and 662 meters (1,667-2,172 feet) into the Earth. With near vertical ...

The Xiaozhai Tiankeng sinkhole is vast. Probably formed centuries ago by collapsing caves and underground rivers, teams of explorers have sought to understand its many mysteries for years.

Pan Jiping fills in a working journal at Xiaozhai Village of Longji Township, Longsheng County, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, May 18, 2021. In Xiaozhai, a village at the foot of ...

Our journey into the world of inky black cavities takes in the world's largest sinkhole - Xiaozhai Tiankeng, or Heavenly Pit - a monster in China that at one point reaches 2,172 feet into the earth.

John Schulman, one of the co-founders of artificial intelligence company OpenAI, has left the ChatGPT maker for rival Anthropic, he said in a post on social media platform X late Monday ...