Astronomers believe this barred spiral galaxy could be the oldest example of its kind ever observed. Research led by Daniel ...

New findings from NASA's Perseverance rover have revealed evidence of wave-formed beaches and rocks altered by subsurface ...

A 2020 astronaut photo shows the oasis town of Jubbah lurking within a paleolake in the wind shadow of Saudi Arabia's "two ...

Archaeologists working at Mohenjodaro have uncovered a protective wall encircling the ancient city, a discovery experts are ...

A new way of analysing fossils has revealed more about animals and environments of ancient times, when humans were evolving.

Stonehenge, one of the most examined prehistoric structures globally, is located on Salisbury Plain in southern England. The ...

Unlike the Egyptian pyramids, ziggurats were not places of royal burials, but temples dedicated to the patron deity of a city ...

Post-doctoral student Megan Jones and colleagues at the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom analyzed the rear ...

The ancient Egyptians and modern Egyptians alike sometimes name their newborns after festivals or even the day they were born ...

The expansion of one of the Mediterranean’s strongest powers wasn’t only driven by conquest, but also infrastructure. By borrowing techniques from the Greeks and the Etruscans, Romans engineered ...

India, Jan. 20 -- As we usher in 2026, how many of us have pondered how the New Year was understood and signified in ancient ...

Ancient microbial activity preserved in deep seafloor sediments challenges assumptions about where fragile traces of early ...