The tiny cuts and grooves that decorate some ancient human artifacts are not just pretty accidents, according to some ...

How did Earth transform from a hostile, acidic ocean world to one that nurtured life? Scientists at Yale and in Singapore ...

Explore Ceres, the largest asteroid in our solar system, and discover its remarkable ancient ocean and ice-rich crust.

Ancient Greek geographer Strabo is one of the greatest writers in the ancient world, devoting his life to studying, writing, ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has been busy gathering bits of Mars — rock cores the size of chalk sticks, clusters of broken fragments no bigger than pencil erasers, and even grains of dust fine enough to ...

The centuries-old tradition of wassailing is making a comeback in rural England, with rituals and revelry meant to chase away evil spirits and the winter blues.

The world’s oldest map, a 3,000-year-old Babylonian clay tablet known as the Imago Mundi, may reveal the location of an […] ...

Discover how sea turtles navigate the ocean using their internal GPS and learn about their magnetic field perception.

Lunar: A history of the moon in myths, maps and matter tells the story of the coexistence between humanity and the celestial ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover is making history by collecting handpicked Martian samples for future return to Earth. Scientists are eager to study these specimens to unlock secrets about Mars’ ancient ...

Archaeologists have discovered potentially the world's oldest 3D map, carved into the floor of a rock shelter outside of ...

For centuries, the Vatican Library has been a vault of historical records, housing some of the world's most treasured texts, ...