In a new study, researchers claim to have solved the mystery of how the early human ancestor known as Lucy died nearly 3.2 million years ago.
Astronomers have detected a planet orbiting the Sun’s nearest neighboring star that may be the closest possible home for life outside our solar system.
A small Spanish press has won the right to publish exact replicas of the unreadable 15th-century manuscript that has been called the world’s most mysterious book.
Meet the history teacher-turned-Resistance heroine who outwitted the Gestapo and rescued her husband (more than once) from captivity.
An archaeologist studying the mysterious ancient city of Teotihuacán argues it was built as an aquatic sanctuary dedicated to the worship of water.
A new study reveals how a powerful solar storm nearly caused the Cold War to erupt into a nuclear struggle between the United States and the Soviet Union.
A tour guide in Bolivia recently stumbled on a giant fossilized footprint measuring more than a meter wide, left some 80 million years ago by a meat-eating dinosaur.
