High in the Bricklieve Mountains of County Sligo lie 14 ancient tombs aligned to the stars. Built over 5,400 years ago, the ...

Scientists at Tel Aviv University have developed a new way to investigate dark matter by studying faint radio waves from the Universe’s earliest era, known as the cosmic dark ages. Their research ...

A study comparing lead exposure in Neanderthals, human ancestors and 20th-century humans poses a series of questions for ...

Photo feature by Abdulaziz Faisal QENA, Southern Egypt, Oct 30 (KUNA) -- Dendera Temple in Qena Governorate, located on the western bank of the Nile River, stands as one of Egypt's most remarkable ...

NASA's Curiosity rover has found evidence of water on ancient Mars with "rippled textures" and "landslide debris" in the ...

Imagine digging into a quiet village field and finding signs of a whole city that existed more than 2,000 years ago. That’s what happened in Keeladi — a small village near Madurai that is now ...

Without the scholars of the Islamic Golden Age, who translated Ancient Greek, it is likely that ancient knowledge would now ...

Karen Wigen is Frances and Charles Field Professor in History at Stanford University. Speaking with Srijana Mitra Das at Times Evoke, she discusses th ...

For Halloween, our space photo of the day shows a brilliant orange sunset over Kitt Peak Observatory in Arizona.

Modern astronomy is giving us unprecedented views of the asteroids, comets, and other small bodies that litter our cosmic ...

November's Sky Above episode features a supermoon, meteor shower, and interstellar comet, with experts discussing these ...

Nalanda was the world’s first residential university, thriving for nearly 700 years in ancient India. Its legacy of global ...