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, ...

Archaeologists in Peru have discovered a 2,500-year-old secret drug room filled with hollowed-out bird bones containing ...

The lower incidence of dementia seen in adults who received the shingles vaccine is likely not just a correlation, scientists ...

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

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 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 ...