In a house in the ruins of Pompeii, archeologists have discovered evidence that a family of four attempted to barricade a ...

NASA's massive super-pressure balloon has completed a 16-day trip around the Southern Hemisphere — a milestone in ...

Archaeologists working at the Cueva de Sangre site in Guatemala have discovered an unusual ancient Maya ritual.

Wave-like soil patterns on the Martian surface match those found in Earth's cold, mountain regions, which could help ...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology's new cesium fountain clock is one of the most precise atomic clocks ever ...

An Irish startup has created the world's first silicon-based quantum computer — it can still integrate seamlessly with ...

T. rex was previously suspected to have evolved in Asia and migrated to North America, but new research shows that the direct ...

The tattooist had used a handheld needle, the patient said, which is a common traditional tattooing technique. Afterward, the ...

This 2018 satellite photo shows an unknown substance swirling across the Gulf of Gdańsk in Poland. Scientists were shocked to ...

Metal detectorists in southwest England unearthed the two gold-and-garnet objects from the Anglo-Saxon period in January.

A large ancient Egyptian fortress in the northern Sinai Desert had an elaborate landscape of 500 trees leading to its ...

Two shipwrecks off Costa Rica were long thought to be the remains of pirate ships, but new analyses reveal that they were ...