A study published in the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters has uncovered evidence of an extreme ancient solar storm ...

AI and ancient woolly mammoth DNA have led to the discovery of mammuthusin, a powerful new antibiotic that could fight deadly ...

Footprints found in New Mexico were dated to roughly 23,000 years old - about 10,000 years before humans were thought to be ...

Archaeologists have uncovered an antler ice pick that sheds light on how prehistoric hunters adapted to glacial conditions in ...

About 20,000 years ago, when Europe was frozen in the final chill of the Ice Age, mysterious giants periodically washed up on the Atlantic shores of modern northern Spain and southwestern France. They ...

The ancient Gamburtsev Subglacial Mountains in the middle of East Antarctica are entombed beneath kilometres of ice ...

Scientists have identified the most powerful solar storm ever recorded, an extreme event that struck Earth around 12,350 BC, ...

In a groundbreaking study published in Nature Communications, a team of researchers has uncovered the earliest known evidence ...

Across the icy edges of Earth’s northern and southern reaches, life has adapted to thrive in some of the harshest conditions.

A downpour brought the wild, vain hope of an end to a crippling drought as the bearers of ancient knowledge walked by, aiming ...

Divers discover 500,000-year-old fossils in a Florida sinkhole on the Steinhatchee River, revealing the existence of ancient ...

A groundbreaking study reveals evidence of a colossal solar storm that struck Earth over 14,000 years ago, dwarfing the ...