Recent studies at France's famous Chauvet Cave reveal the remarkable secret behind how its ancient paintings have stood the test of time.

A mysterious 900-mile-long cloud on Mars known as "AMEC" is challenging what scientists know about cloud formation.

New DNA analysis of 20000-year-old crane bones has concluded that it is not an extinct species after all, solving a 150-year-old mystery.

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By growing microorganisms in the lab, scientists have uncovered new support for the prospect that Saturn's moon Enceladus ...

A never-before-recognized theoretical phenomenon hidden in Einstein's gravity work may help researchers predict the behavior ...

A 1,500-year-old clay figure excavated in Japan offers new insight into the religious life of the Kofun period, when Buddhism ...

A new analysis of a mysterious skeleton discovered in a Westminster Abbey sarcophagus in the 1800s has identified two likely ...

Climate change has erased two millennia of progress toward a new global ice age, potentially validating controversial claims ...