Scientists have uncovered DNA from 214 ancient pathogens in prehistoric humans, including the oldest known evidence of plague ...

Ever been late because you misread a clock? Sometimes, the "clocks" geologists use to date events can also be misread.

Scientists thought this crater in Australia was the world’s oldest – but an independent analysis shows they might be off by ...

Ever been late because you misread a clock? Sometimes, the "clocks" geologists use to date events can also be misread.

Hipparchus’s star catalog is the oldest known attempt to document the positions of as many objects in the night sky as possible, and it was the first time that two coordinates were used to ...

Scientists have discovered what may be one of the oldest boomerangs in the world, hidden in a Polish cave for tens of ...

The discovery of an ancient meteorite impact crater was recently reported in Western Australia. But not everyone is convinced ...

The Nuvvuagittuq Greenstone Belt has long been known for its ancient rocks — plains of streaked gray stone on the eastern ...

A mystery interstellar object discovered last week is likely to be the oldest comet ever seen – possibly predating our solar system by more than three billion years, researchers say. The "water ...

A research team led by Eske Willerslev, professor at the University of Copenhagen and the University of Cambridge, has recovered ancient DNA from 214 known human pathogens in prehistoric humans from ...