“It is all black. Almost in a diamond shape,” said Hallur Antoniussen, the Faroese-born fisher who took the shot. He was ...

The Endeavour’s historic voyage began in 1768. Under the command of Captain James Cook, the ship circumnavigated the globe ...

Religious temples across China shelter thousands of ancient trees, including species extinct in the wild.

Researchers studied an ancient granite pebble naturally shaped like a face, marked with a red ochre fingerprint. It happens ...

When a beam of infrared light strikes their ultra-thin lens—barely thicker than a red blood cell—it emerges on the other side ...

As archaeologists continue to study Küllüoba—a settlement of the Hattians, the Anatolian people who preceded the ...

Was the “Big Bang” a cosmic rebound? New study suggests the Universe may have started inside a giant black hole.

Hundreds of endangered Australian Green and Golden Bell found a cozy and toasty place to huddle up. Unbeknownst to them, this ...

In the heart of distant galaxies, astronomers have witnessed the most violent stellar death throes ever recorded.

To put it simply, yes, vegetarians tend to be more rebellious. But they’re not without a cause. In Western society, meat ...

Sutton Hoo, in Suffolk, is no ordinary archaeological site. Discovered in 1939, it stunned historians with its 7th-century ...

In a new paper, a group of planetary scientists, biologists, and engineers make the case for treating Mars as the ultimate ...