China just launched its rival to SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket for the first time, reportedly without providing any advance safety warnings. The 236-foot-tall (72 meters) March 12B rocket blasted off at ...

NASA has confirmed that a bright fireball meteor exploded in the sky over New England on Saturday (May 30), releasing the equivalent energy of about 230 tons of TNT and generating a sonic boom heard ...

Over a century after a red-lined cave wall was discovered, scientists have determined that it represents the U.K.'s oldest ...

In a first-of-its-kind discovery, astronomers claim they have directly measured the magnetic fields of multiple planets beyond our solar system — potentially providing a crucial new tool in the search ...

The Colosseum was the largest amphitheater built in ancient Rome. The massive arena held thousands of spectators, who packed the stands to watch gladiators battle to the death and fight exotic animals ...

The Euphrates River fueled the "cradle of civilization," and a new study reveals the waterway was born of two other ancient ...

Amateur male soccer players had greater changes in certain blood markers associated with neural damage the harder and more ...

A 2015 astronaut photo shows dark-orange water that appears to bleed across the bright-white floor of a high-altitude salt ...

A child's 4,000-year-old skull found in Uzbekistan has signs of trepanation, making it the oldest evidence of surgery in ...

The Gessel gold hoard is among the largest treasures ever discovered in prehistoric Europe but has only three pieces of ...

The grandfather paradox is a self-contradictory situation that arises in some time travel scenarios that is illustrated by the impossible scenario in which a person travels back in time only to kill ...

Fingal's Cave is a hollow inside the Scottish island of Staffa that is characterized by massive, interlocking hexagonal ...