A recently unearthed altar in Tikal holds the burial of a child and adult, but it wasn't built by the Maya. Instead, it ...

A meteorite found in Antarctica in 2012 suggests Earth may have formed with the materials needed to make water, a new study ...

Researchers have determined that a mysterious jawbone discovered on the seafloor off the coast of Taiwan was Denisovan, ...

Earth has four seasons, but do other planets in our solar system also have hot summer days and cold winter nights?

Scientists have developed a method for storing quantum information in a single dimension, thereby reducing decoherence, using ...

A newly excavated horse cemetery in Germany dates to Roman times.

A new documentary explores the tragic final night of the RMS Titanic with the most detailed digital reconstruction of the ship ever created.

Archaeologist Julia Wihlborg suggested that the sword and shield of the Hårby Valkyrie may represent a woman who had manly ...

A global study seeks insights into what helps people feel happy, healthy and satisfied — and what holds them back.

Astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope for the largest and deepest sample of galaxy groups, some of which were up to ...

The findings shed light on the ancient people who lived in western Hungary, whose identity continues to confound scholars.

The CL1 computer is the first in the world that combines human neurons with a silicon chip. It could be used in disease ...