Studies of sediment cores from the sea floor and the coastal regions surrounding the Aegean Sea show that humans contaminated the environment with lead early on in antiquity. Geoscientists conducted ...

The findings provide the strongest evidence yet that asteroids may have planted the seeds of life on Earth. CAPE CANAVERAL, ...

The DNA ingredients discovered on the asteroid Bennu by NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission suggest that life-building blocks exist ...

New research suggests the Moon still lives and that it isn't just a hunk of dead, cooled molten rock like scientists used to ...

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Sheep have been intertwined with human livelihoods for over 11,000 years. As well as meat, their domestication led to humans ...

Alexander the Great is one of the most famous generals of the ancient world. By the age of 32 he had conquered a massive empire that stretched from the Balkans to modern-day Pakistan. We know about ...

A pre-Columbian society in the Amazon developed a sophisticated agricultural engineering system that allowed them to produce ...

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

The remains of the deceased found in the burials may be more than 2,000 years old, according to archaeologists.

NASA scientists found amino acids, key minerals, and nucleobases for DNA in samples from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission.

After decades of study, scientists sound genuinely optimistic about the possibility of detecting primordial black holes, which might explain dark matter.