Mathematics in ancient Egypt Calculation principles found in a papyrus scroll, and an author shares his love of lichens in this week’s pick from the Nature archive.

Xiamei village in Wuyishan, Fujian province, is the starting point of an ancient tea road that stretched about 13,000 kilometers to Russia. In 2012, Xiamei was added to the state protection list ...

More than 120 images of ancient Egyptian boats have been discovered adorning the inside of a building in Abydos, Egypt. The building dates back more than 3,800 years and was built near the tomb of ...

The Perseverance rover has captured new images that appear to show evidence of a fast-flowing river that once fed into Jezero Crater, the site of an ancient Martian lake.

The exhibition title is drawn from an eponymous poem by Tang Dynasty (618-907) poet Du Fu. It offers an encyclopedic view of images of women in ancient Chinese art.

Hundreds of years before a Greek scholar outlined his proof of the Pythagorean theorem, ancient Chinese scholars proved it using just 17 characters, a renowned Chinese mathematician highlighted in ...

September 18, 2009 The Planck mission has captured its first rough images of the sky, demonstrating the observatory is working and ready to measure light from the dawn of time.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope was 'photobombed' by thousands of ancient and distant galaxies, when it took its first 'in-focus' image of a single star. The $10 billion observatory is going ...

New images of gas churning inside an ancient starburst galaxy help explain why this galactic firecracker underwent such frenzied star formation.

Archaeologists say they have found the site of an ancient battle in what is now Iraq by comparing historical accounts with declassified images from US spy satellites.