Long before Sputnik launched, something else may have already been orbiting Earth. Known as the Black Knight Satellite, this ...

NUALA G WALSH on the allure and dangers of a compelling counter-narrative ...

So here are the best anime, from every decade. This is where everything begins. Astro Boy was the first successful weekly anime series on Japanese television, and Osamu Tezuka basically invented the ...

Synchrotron radiation has revealed a star map made by the ancient astronomer Hipparchus that was thought to be lost to time ...

Thousands of years before the invention of compasses or sails, prehistoric peoples crossed oceans to reach remote lands like ...

Excavations at an opencast mine in Greece have uncovered two wooden objects more than 400,000 years old that appear to have been fashioned as tools by an unknown species of ancient human ...

Archaeologists have found 5,000-year-old ancient Egyptian rock art in the Sinai Desert that depicts the conquest of the ...

When we think about cutting-edge technology, we usually picture Silicon Valley startups or futuristic labs. But here's the ...

The fossils offer a rare glimpse into a cataclysmic event that brought a sudden end to the greatest explosion of life in our ...

The cycling of water within Earth's interior regulates plate tectonics, volcanism, ocean volume, and climate stability, ...

The tablets were purposefully thrown in a well to obscure what was written on them, but there were still impressions on the ...

Used by our early human ancestors around 430,000 years ago, the earliest known hand-held wooden tools have been uncovered by ...