More than 2,000 years ago, Greek artisans built a compact machine of interlocking gears that could track the heavens with a ...

Researchers have counted 16,600 fossilized dinosaur footprints and 1,378 swim tracks at a site in Bolivia that showcase a ...

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 ...

The area around Boeslunde had already yielded 10 gold oath rings and approximately 2,200 gold spirals in previous excavations. Museum director and archaeologist Lone Claudi-Hansen explained their ...

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," ...

Ancient stone tools found on Sulawesi, an island in Indonesia, raises huge questions about early hominins ability to sail ...

Bennu asteroid samples returned by NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission reveal life's building blocks, including sugars like ribose and ...

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

H. qini was discovered in the Wangmen Formation, a geological rock unit. Paleontologists have discovered a new species of plant-eating dinosaur measuring at 39 feet long. Huashanosaurus qini, ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Scientists have discovered prehistoric insects preserved in amber for the first time in South America, providing a fresh glimpse into life on Earth at a time when flowering plants ...