An examination of charring on skeletons showed signs they had been exposed to low heat over long periods of time, which would ...

The world's oldest evidence for purposeful human mummification comes from Southeast Asia, where people smoke-dried their ancestors' corpses 10,000 years ago. Most companies are about as prepared for ...

Mummies dating back 14,000 years, thought to be among the oldest in the world, have been discovered by archaeologists in ...

Scientists in Colombia have discovered a previously unknown lineage of human beings after fully sequencing the DNA of ancient ...

Deep in space, an ancient brown dwarf nicknamed "The Accident" has revealed the first-ever detection of a molecule that ...

Water may have flowed on the asteroid that birthed the space rock Ryugu a billion years after it formed, much later than ...

Scientists found the massive underwater mountain off Canada’s Pacific coast, rising 3,600 feet above the seafloor.

NASA's Mars rover Perseverance has uncovered rocks in a dry river channel that may hold potential signs of ancient ...

It's just one of many depositories of ‘secret fresh water’ known to exist in shallow salt waters around the world ...

Minerals in the rock might have been produced by microbes in chemical reactions, but researchers say they’ll need to examine the sample more closely to know for sure ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover found possible signs of ancient life in rocks on Mars, keeping scientists up at night.

The discovery by the six-wheeled rover in Jezero Crater represents one of the best pieces of evidence to date about the ...