A forgotten boulder, recently re-examined, is providing new insights into the origins of Stonehenge's bluestones. Analysis of ...

How did humans become human? Understanding when, where and in what environmental conditions our early ancestors lived is ...

Researchers continue to build on a body of evidence for a fragmented comet that is thought to have exploded over Earth almost ...

Scientists believe intriguing leopard spots on a rock sampled by the Perseverance rover on Mars may have potentially been ...

Hunter-gatherers in parts of ancient Asia prepared their dead for burial with smoke-drying up to 14,000 years ago, resulting ...

Lycodon duytan, or the Duy Tan wolf snake, is a “cryptic” species, meaning it closely resembles other related wolf snake species, according to researchers. The species is nocturnal and, at about 35 ...

Descendants of Chinese miners killed in an infamous massacre in Rock Springs, Wyoming, in 1885 joined archaeologists this ...

A team of archaeologists believes that three impressively sized circular ditch structures from around 4500 B.C.E.—which the ...

Underwater archaeologist Gary Bankhead has found more than 40 stones in the River Wear at South and North Hylton in Sunderland, and believes they date back to Roman times. The blocks had been subject ...

Potential signs of microbial life were found in a rock sample collected by the rover in 2024 from an ancient dry riverbed on Mars' Jezero Crater -- an area of rocky outcrops on the edges the Neretva ...

Researchers can study volcanic deposits at archaeological sites to piece together how ancient people responded to ...