A solar eclipse recorded in ancient China more than 2,700 years ago is helping scientists refine measurements of Earth’s rotation and investigate the Sun’s past behavior.

The Silverpit crater mystery in the North Sea appears to have been solved. Scientists say it was formed by an asteroid 43 million years ago.

The ancient world holds secrets that continue to baffle archaeologists, historians, and curious minds today. From cities that ...

Archaeologists have confirmed the location of a long-lost city founded by Alexander the Great — a once-thriving trade hub that’s been hidden for centuries.

A long-standing scientific debate has finally been resolved: the Silverpit Crater beneath the North Sea was formed by a massive asteroid impact around 43–46 million years ago. New research analysing ...

A rare Roman temple dedicated to mystery cult deity Mithras was discovered in Germany, with the oldest-known sanctuary in Bavaria dating to the first or second centuries A.D.

Police in Karachi have resolved the mystery surrounding a statue with a satanic appearance that was recovered from a shop in ...

A 3,400-year-old lost city has resurfaced, revealing 'Golden' secrets of ancient empires and rewriting human history.

While the human remains in the coffin were not those of an elite member of society (as they had once been thought to be), ...

Did the moon have a strong or weak magnetic field in its early history? We may now know the truth. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works ...

There is a corner of Antarctica that looks like something out of a David Cronenberg movie. It's located in the dry valleys of McMurdo, an immense frozen desert where, periodically, a jet of crimson ...

There’s a troubling mystery at the heart of the most widely accepted theory of how complex organisms first evolved on Earth. Eukaryotes are organisms which have a true, membrane-bound nucleus ...