The skeletal remains of the 'Upper Largie Woman' were found in a quarry in Scotland. Now, scientists have reconstructed the ...

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A capsule containing 2 ounces of rocky material from the "potentially hazardous" asteroid Bennu has landed safely in the Utah desert after a seven-year mission in space.

The sun's outer atmosphere was captured at previously impossible extreme ultraviolet wavelengths thanks to a last-minute ...

Astronomers have spotted a gigantic void they believe to be a baryon acoustic oscillation — a relic from when the universe ...

The discovery of seemingly home-grown carbon dioxide suggests Europa's ice-covered ocean could be habitable. NASA's James ...

A team of astronomers has used a tricky technique to study an ancient galaxy previously lost in the glare of a blazing quasar ...

Scientists say a synthetic compound derived from Brazilian wandering spider venom could treat people with erectile ...

Archaeologists in Kazakhstan have discovered a hexagonal pyramid that served as a burial site in the Bronze Age.

A new study has found that the famous Australian lungfish Methuselah, who first arrived in the U.S. in 1938, could be up to ...

A landslide in northern Spain has helped unearth two Iron Age gold necklaces that were likely buried in a hoard about 2,500 ...

Analysis of the microscopic structure of an ancient shard of Roman glass has revealed how photonic crystals form, and might ...