The Endeavour’s historic voyage began in 1768. Under the command of Captain James Cook, the ship circumnavigated the globe ...

“It is all black. Almost in a diamond shape,” said Hallur Antoniussen, the Faroese-born fisher who took the shot. He was ...

Religious temples across China shelter thousands of ancient trees, including species extinct in the wild.

Was the “Big Bang” a cosmic rebound? New study suggests the Universe may have started inside a giant black hole.

In the quiet before the whir of motion, a cube sits scrambled. Then, in the time it takes to blink—actually, even less—it’s ...

Researchers studied an ancient granite pebble naturally shaped like a face, marked with a red ochre fingerprint. It happens ...

When a beam of infrared light strikes their ultra-thin lens—barely thicker than a red blood cell—it emerges on the other side ...

There’s a new type of LED in town. These light-emitting diodes (LEDs) are made from a material called perovskite, a calcium ...

Hundreds of endangered Australian Green and Golden Bell found a cozy and toasty place to huddle up. Unbeknownst to them, this ...

Sutton Hoo, in Suffolk, is no ordinary archaeological site. Discovered in 1939, it stunned historians with its 7th-century ...

As archaeologists continue to study Küllüoba—a settlement of the Hattians, the Anatolian people who preceded the ...

In the heart of distant galaxies, astronomers have witnessed the most violent stellar death throes ever recorded.