Many of the ancient southern Africans, including those who lived between about 10,200 and 1,400 years ago, "fall outside the ...

A seven-hour gamma-ray burst, GRB 250702B, stuns astronomers and hints at powerful new cosmic engines still unknown to science.

Qin-era carved stone proven authentic through advanced analysis, revealing ancient Kunlun mission and inspiring new preservation efforts.

In two of the most forbidding landscapes on Earth—the Empty Quarter of the Arabian Peninsula and the Nazca Desert of ...

The extinct rhinoceros, described in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution, is the northernmost rhino known to have ever ...

Astronomers have observed the longest-ever gamma-ray burst — a powerful, extragalactic explosion that lasted over seven hours ...

Astronomers have spotted the longest gamma-ray burst ever seen, a cosmic explosion that lasted seven hours — and they determined it could be the work of a black hole destroying a star. Gamma-ray ...

Uncovered near the submerged island of Antirhodos in Alexandria's Portus Magnus, this is the first ancient Egyptian party ...

History classes tend to cover the major events from our past: wars, the founding of new nations, the exploration of unknown ...

Two-thirds of the way through the year, 2023 seems destined to be remembered as the year that extreme weather events left the Northern Hemisphere reeling. According to the European Union’s Copernicus ...

Sometimes it takes a village to raise a window. Between 2015 and 2017, skilled masons meticulously carved and beveled arches and four-lobed flourishes for a Gothic-style stone window frame in Guédelon ...

Not every notable discovery consists of a single extraordinary artifact, a previously unknown structure, or a newly revised date for an ancient technology. Some of the most significant discoveries ...