Some archaeological surprises changing how we look at the past--and producing more questions in the process. The first large-scale application of a new technology has located literally thousands of "vast circular holes" in the Stonehenge landscape. They w...

With climate change in mind, researchers from many disciplines propose a model for implementing beneficial policy changes within a large group of different individuals and communities.

At the beginning of the 20th century, a team of international paleontologists prepared to excavate a cave located in a limestone formation known as Dragon-Bone Hill, a few hours outside of Beijing. The Cave of Zhoukoudian had traditionally been the hau...

When considering the brave and dogged individuals who seek out cryptids, it seems appropriate that we start with an interview with Karl Shuker, a zoologist with an unlimited hunger to investigate unknown creatures. He explains his investigative technique...

Did ancient civilizations have sophisticated technology? Do these ancient skulls with bullet holes provide an answer? If you’re like us, you’ve probably observed that history is riddled with inconsistencies and, at times, a complete lack of records of key...

Washington — A House panel held the first public congressional hearing on unidentified flying objects in more than half a century on Tuesday, with top Pentagon officials saying the number of “unidentified aerial phenomena” (UAP) reported by pilots and se...

At the moment, only SpaceX is able to launch astronauts to the International Space Station from US soil, but Boeing hopes to change that with an uncrewed test of its Starliner spacecraft

Divers uncover an old shipwreck 150 feet beneath the ocean in April 1900, about 230 feet off the coast of the little island of Antikythera. Over the next two years, objects from the wreckage are unearthed, including the remains of a coral-incrusted metal ...

  The ESA has captured a stunning image of the 4.5 billion-year-old glowing ball of hydrogen and helium at the center of our solar system we humans have named Sol, the Sun. We orbit our star some 93 million miles (150 million kilometers) distant, where, ...

Archaeologists from Historic England and the Cornwall Archaeology Unit (CAU) have uncovered proof that a standing stone circle once stood inside Castilly Henge, a Neolithic-period earthwork found near Bodmin,
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NASA will host a media teleconference with partners Advanced Space and Rocket Lab at 3 p.m. EDT Wednesday, May 25, in advance of the Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment (CAPSTONE) launch, scheduled for no...

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When you face an uncomfortable situation, you might choose to run and hide. But wouldn’t it be easier if you could suddenly blend into your surroundings? In what ways could you camouflage your body? How would your skin need to be different? And how woul...

Billions of years in the future, the Sun will begin to die. And this is what our planet would look like. But what if we turn things up a notch or two right now? Let’s upgrade our star from yellow to blue. How different would the world look? Could your b...