Buried deep in a forgotten well, seven skeletons waited over a decade for their story to be told.

A newly discovered 12,000-year-old figurine from Israel reveals the earliest evidence of imagination shaping human society — ...

Beneath a bustling European city, archaeologists have unearthed a perfectly preserved medieval world.

A mysterious signal from deep space just changed everything we thought we knew about an interstellar comet racing through our ...

The so-called “Boring Billion” may have been anything but—a supercontinent’s breakup 1.46 billion years ago may have sparked ...

Located above the Irtysh River in Kazakhstan’s Abai Oblast, the site had been known to local researchers for over two decades ...

Fractured quartz beneath the Earth’s surface may be all that’s left of an ancient force that reshaped the world.

A shocking discovery in a New Mexico desert is turning everything we thought we knew about the first Americans on its head.

Owning a cat during childhood could significantly increase the odds of developing schizophrenia-related conditions later in ...

A blue, six-eyed springtail found on a rotten log in Japan is shaking up the world of tiny creatures. What’s its secret?

After years of searching, a team of scientists in Mexico finally spotted a mysterious whale species once thought to be a myth ...