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

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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 ...

A century-old astronomical mystery has just been solved: Betelgeuse, the massive red supergiant in Orion’s shoulder, has a ...

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

A medieval Arabic poem written in 1348 helped construct one of the longest-standing misconceptions in plague history, shaping false views of its spread across Asia.

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