CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — New research shows that when an asteroid slammed into the moon billions of years ago, it carved ...

A new discovery from the Roman empire outlines a juicy case of second-century crime. Containing an extraordinary 133 lines of text, an ancient piece of papyrus shows how even Roman government had to ...

Here’s a look at five of the weirdest things humans have ever used as currency.

No matter how many missions to Mars she takes part in, the sheer joy of unearthing discoveries about the Red Planet never ...

As a result, modern languages are in danger of “dying out”, with subjects such as French, German and Spanish becoming “much ...

One summer’s day in 1936, a crowd piled into a Mayfair gallery to hear Salvador Dalí give a lecture at the International Surrealist Exhibition ...

In Kashmir, leech therapy is experiencing a resurgence as a trusted alternative to modern medicine. Practitioners like Mohd ...

Mars haunts us as a vision of a planet gone wrong. It was once warm and wet, with rivers flowing across its surface and ...

"It's been such a puzzle that there was liquid water on Mars, because Mars is further from the sun, and also, the sun was ...

Increased volcanic activity in Greece’s famed tourist hotspot of Santorini has prompted the country’s civil protection ...

Rare ultra-faint dwarf galaxies beyond the influence of other galaxies show evidence that star formation was stifled long ago ...

Lead pollution in the Aegean Sea region may have begun around 5,200 years ago, according to a paper published in Communications Earth & ...