Three major discoveries — the earliest 'Jesus is God' inscription in Israel, a new rotation of the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the recovery of 42 lost pages from Codex H — are offering fresh insights into ...

Scientists edge closer to answering Mars’ biggest question: Did life ever exist on the red planet? Here's the latest from two ...

This is an annotated close-up of three holes NASA’s Curiosity drilled into Martian rock at a location nicknamed “Mary Anning” ...

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover took this selfie at a location nicknamed "Mary Anning" after a 19th century English ...

Ancient Earth once buzzed with enormous dragonfly-like insects, and scientists long thought high oxygen levels made their ...

New research on the Shamash Gate in ancient Nineveh uncovers ISIS tunnel damage and rare evidence from the Assyrian capital.

For an animal that already looks assembled from spare parts, the platypus has added another twist to its history. Fossils ...

Incredibly, scientists and mathematicians in ancient Greece made some of the most significant astronomical discoveries ...

The Shamash Gate was one of eighteen gates that controlled access to Nineveh, the great capital of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, situated on the eastern bank of the Tigris River near modern Mosul.

Genome evidence points to a slow blending of peoples — not a violent tide of invaders — that laid the foundations of modern ...

Finding life on Mars might be closer than we thought. NASA’s Curiosity rover has yielded promising data from the Red Planet, ...

Some researchers hold that evolution hasn’t much altered humans in the past 10,000 years. A new analysis of ancient DNA indicates that natural selection continued to shape hundreds of genes.