That huge genetic mystery is at the heart of Pop Mech ’s new story, “ Scientists Found 6,000-Year-Old Human Remains. No Other ...

Archaeologists are to resume digging at the Ness of Brodgar on Orkney after 3D radar technology led to an "extraordinary ...

Anita Gould, 56, was scheduled to fly to Atlanta, Georgia, on Nov. 10 Read full article: ‘She was strong and fighting’: Loved ones remember Southwest HS softball star who died of ovarian cancer ...

The civilization was known for sophisticated urban centers, ceremonial platforms, cliffside burial structures, and ...

An “extraordinary discovery” has been made at one of Orkney’s most stunning Neolithic sites, which could completely rewrite ...

Now, in a study published Tuesday called "Mystery owner of African hominin foot identified," the scientists announced that ...

Examination of an ancient alabaster vase in the Yale Peabody Museum’s Babylonian Collection has revealed traces of opiates, providing the clearest evidence to date of broad opium use in ancient ...

Indian astronomers have discovered 'Alaknanda,' a remarkably well-formed spiral galaxy, just 1.5 billion years after the Big ...

The groundbreaking discovery points to the possibility of past life on Mars. A 3.5-billion-year old rock discovered on the Red Planet is "the closest we've come to discovering ancient life on Mars," ...

MIT researchers traced chemical fossils in ancient rocks back to the ancestors of today’s demosponges. A team of geochemists ...

A previously unknown medieval castle has emerged from the Swiss landscape after a researcher studying high-resolution terrain maps identified telltale features of an early fortification near ...