The Saqqara Necropolis was the Burial ground for the Ancient Capital City of Memphis, which lies south of Cairo. On October ...

Off the coast of a Greek island sits the Antikythera shipwreck, a 2,000-year-old wreck with a story that inspired an Indiana Jones movie. From its beginnings as an accidental discovery to the recent ...

I’ll never forget the dentist appointment I had when I was 18. It was supposed to be a routine cleaning, the kind of thing you do every six months without a second thought. After my teeth were ...

This practice has been documented as far back as 28,000 years ago, but has not been confirmed at older sites, making ...

Two studies fill in gaps about the cosmos’s ordinary matter. One maps it all, even the “missing matter.” The other details one of its hiding spots.

New observations support the idea that hot, diffuse threads of gas called cosmic filaments connect clusters of galaxies ...

Excavations of the northern defensive ditches of Magna Fort have revealed 32 shoes buried in the “semi-anaerobic low oxygen deposits,” according to a July 2 news release from the Vindolanda Charitable ...

Since their discovery by Wilhelm Roentgen in 1895, X-rays have become a staple of modern medical care, from imaging teeth and ...

The Hubble Space Telescope is making waves again, this time for a snapshot of a spiral galaxy located 250 million light-years ...

Thirty years after its discovery, pieces of the Lighthouse of Alexandria, which stood watch long ago in the harbors of ...

Astronomers detect 10 billion-year-old radio waves from a distant galaxy cluster SpARCS1049, revealing a mini-halo that ...

A faint radio glow reveals a million-light-year halo enveloping one of the earliest galaxy clusters, hinting that energetic ...