A recent study claimed Gunung Padang in Indonesia is a 25,000-year-old pyramid. This challenged established timelines of ...

Four chapters of the Bible are said to have been ‘confirmed’ true. This comes after a major discovery was made in Turkey when ...

I n another blow to the image of Neanderthal as brutish troglodyte, we’ve identified the tools the ancient hominin used to ...

A rare trapdoor spider, Aptostichus ramirezae, discovered in Iran, features a tail-like appendage, a trait thought extinct ...

Water discoveries in space happen all the time. But this one’s actually a big deal, and not just because some scientists got excited (though they absolutely did). NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory ...

Could a comet be sent on such a trajectory through the galaxy that its surface no longer reflects the world from which it came? New observations of the comet 3I/ATLAS by the James Webb Space Telescope ...

The carriage workshop, which also had evidence of fixing horseshoes, offered services to travelers in the first century C.E.

Anthropologist Christopher Bae has recently suggested we add two new species of ancient human to our family tree. The plans break the conventions for how species should be named – but Bae argues the r ...

After more than five months of meticulous excavation, Chinese archaeologists have discovered and confirmed four large courtyard complexes in the southwest portion of the imperial city at the Liao ...

Strange glassy blobs strewn across the Australian desert are evidence of an ancient meteorite impact that scientists hadn't ...

Archaeologists in Ibiza, Spain have uncovered a rare 2,000-year-old wooden statue of Hercules preserved in a Roman-era refuse ...

For more than half a billion years, a giant magnetic anomaly buried in Earth’s ancient rocks has puzzled scientists. The ...