Is it possible to dig all the way through the Earth to the other side? – Anishwar, age 8, India When I was a kid, I liked to dig holes in my backyard in Cincinnati. My grandfather joked that if ...

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?. Various teams have attempted ...

Stock/Getty Images The desire to dig a hole to the other side of the world is a well-established childhood fantasy. Though ...

Just to give an idea, when making a hole through the crust, for every 10 feet (3 meters) of rock, the pressure would rise by approximately one atmospheric pressure, as per the U.S. Geological Survey.

Antipodes on a sphere are the pair of points furthest away from each other, and on Earth, most of them are in the oceans. Start digging in the continental U.S. and you’ll find yourself smack dab in ...

Have you ever heard the phrase “If you could dig a hole to China?” I hate to tell you that even if there was a way to do that, you wouldn’t end up in China if you dug directly down. Maybe if ...

My aunt says if you tried to dig a hole to the other side of Earth, this is what would happen: First, you’d dig through loose stuff, like dirt or sand. It might be a little, ...

In 2011, Matt Mina spent three hours digging a deep, 6-foot hole at 54th street in Newport Beach when the sand collapsed around him and buried him. No one knew if Mina – who was under for 10 ...

Is it possible to dig all the way through the earth to the other side? The deepest hole in the earth is the Kola Superdeep Borehole in northwestern Russia, which extends 12.2 km deep ...