Archaeologists in Bolivia have discovered an ancient complex roughly 215 km (130 miles) south-east of Tiwanaku’s historical site, where a large, modular building with an integrated, sunken courtyard ...

The maritime expansion of Scandinavian populations during the Viking Age was a far-flung transformation in world history. Margaryan et al sequenced the genomes of 442 humans from archaeological sites ...

Around 12,800 years ago, Earth collided with fragments of a disintegrating comet, triggering Younger Dryas climate change.

Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History and elsewhere have sequenced and analyzed the genomes of 82 individuals that lived between 800 BCE and 1000 CE in Etruria and ...

Using new observational data from the space-based Solar Mass Ejection Imager and three different modeling techniques, astronomers have found that Betelgeuse, a red supergiant in the constellation of ...

A new translation of a 40-line inscription on a 3,500-year-old stone block from Egypt called the Tempest Stela describes rain, darkness and the ‘sky being in storm without cessation, louder than the ...

LHS 1140b is the second-closest temperate transiting exoplanet to Earth with a temperature low enough to support surface liquid water.