Two 7,000-year-old mummies found in Libya reveal an isolated North African lineage and rewrite the genetic history of the Green Sahara.

The Hubble Space Telescope has been surveying space since 1990 and has captured some interesting cosmic elements in action.

The universe has a knack for throwing curveballs at astronomers. Just when scientists think they’ve got cosmic mechanics ...

The discovery of strange, ultra-red objects—especially the extreme case known as The Cliff—has pushed astronomers to propose ...

A few years ago, NASA was listening for cosmic rays above Antarctica when it found signals that shouldn't exist, and it's ...

Astronomers are marveling at a distant galaxy surrounded by two giant, intersecting rings of radio light in space, each about 300,000 light-years wide. The discovery, made by volunteers in the ...

The wall stretched for 73 miles. The Roman Empire built 73 miles of wall to fortify its northern border in Great Britain. In AD 122, the Emperor Hadrian ordered its construction, and it remained the ...

Scientists continue to discover animals that seem almost too strange to be real. Even with shrinking habitats and climate ...