From the rover's point of view on the ground, it's hard to tell, but this ancient shoreline on Mars seemed to lie inside a 2,050-mile-wide (3,300-kilometer-wide) impact crater called Utopia Basin.

The results were nothing short of astonishing, as they revealed that most of these ancient stones, including Stone 58, shared a strikingly similar chemical makeup, strongly suggesting a common origin.

Archaeologists are finding mysterious ancient objects on Norway's melting glaciers. Take a look.

The research team has named that sea Deuteronilus. "We're finding places on Mars that used to look like ancient beaches and ancient river deltas," says geologist Benjamin Cardenas of The Pennsylvania ...

From strange wooden tools and statues to ancient human remains, these objects are drawing archaeologists into the high, frozen mountains each year. Norway is at the forefront of this emerging ...

Some of the world’s oldest roadways are only memories now—but many have been preserved as historic monuments or improved to handle today’s traffic.

The slightly peaked corners evoke an ancient style of architecture that helped protect against thieves and rodents, according to the Met. Inside, the box is divided into two sections: the place ...

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She has been working on a unique and eye-catching project where she paints realistic renderings of Eyes on Stones. The hyperrealistic drawings show skin, lashes and lids that unflinchingly stare ...

This ancient period of deep freeze, known as the Neoproterozoic Era, or “Snowball Earth,” lasted from about 1 billion to 543 million years ago. During that time, landmasses consolidated into a ...