Poet, essayist, translator and former University of Michigan professor Anne Carson has received the Nobel Prize in Literature ...

Archaeologists exploring Kvitingskjølen mountain recently came across dozens of prehistoric arrows dating as far back as ...

On 20 October, a rocket will blast off from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s (JAXA’s) Tanegashima Space Center, flinging a spacecraft the size of a car to Mars. When it arrives, it’ll swoop ...

Detected by the MeerKAT array, this “fast radio burst” comes from 3 billion years after the Big Bang, and could help map the ...

Eighteen of 46 skulls from subsidiary burials at Abydos showed potentially lethal injuries inflicted near the time of death.

New study suggests that settlement of the Pacific occurred in a migration process with what the authors call a series of ...

What may have looked like a cross between a platypus and a beaverlike rodent and lived around 120 million years ago?

A 2,000-year-old marble sculpture slated for auction later this month is more than a well-preserved piece of artistic history ...

Researchers found the structure's remains, as well as fragments of statues, while excavating near the Kapersburg fort, an ...

Sigourney Weaver's best sci-fi movies, from Ghostbusters to WALL-E, ranked based on her performance in the genre.

Three years ago, George Kassiotis and his team made an unexpected discovery: A specific way of producing a protein called calbindin was found to help cancer cells survive by preventing them from aging ...

Archaeological excavations near an ancient Roman basilica in France uncovered a collection of 1,000 Roman-era dice. On every ...