We live in a golden age for space exploration. Scientists are gathering massive amounts of new information and scientific evidence at a record pace.

Thirty feet under the surface of the cold, murky Baltic Sea, Brendan Foley spotted something unusual in the wreckage of an ...

The next Sputnik Moment will take place against the backdrop of great power competition, as it did in the 1950s. This time, ...

While genetic tests can reveal the ancestry of enslaved individuals, strontium analysis can now home in on where they actually grew up.

Astronomers have identified a quasar that may help explain how the universe’s “dark ages” finally ended. Astronomers have ...

SPHEREx is a groundbreaking NASA telescope that will map the entire sky in infrared, revealing insights into cosmic inflation ...

New research has revealed bone powder was a crucial substance as ancient China's Peiligang culture emerged from a ...

Rivers began pumping weathered material into the sea about a billion years after Earth formed, suggesting continents may have gotten an early start.

Ancient Greece produced the earliest records of democracy, western philosophy — and, it turns out, lead pollution. Researchers studying sediment cores recovered from mainland ...

Lidar technology has uncovered a 15th-century Zapotec city hidden beneath the dense jungles of Guiengola in Mexico.

For centuries, the monumental complex of Qaṣr-e Šīrīn, located in the province of Kermanshah, Iran, has been the subject of ...