A carved-out cow bone found in Egypt is actually an ancient whistle, once used by an Egyptian “police officer.” This officer ...

After hundreds of years of trying, experts have finally managed to read a series of iconic, ancient scrolls – with a little ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Scientists have discovered prehistoric insects preserved in amber for the first time in South America, providing a fresh glimpse into life on Earth at a time when flowering plants ...

Scientists believe intriguing leopard spots on a rock sampled by the Perseverance rover on Mars may have potentially been ...

The lentils now grown in the Canary Islands have a history that stretches back almost 2,000 years on the site. This is shown ...

The Artificial Intelligence chatbot, ChatGPT, appeared to improvise ideas and make mistakes like a student in a study that ...

Columbian mammoths in Mexico are genetically different from those in the U.S. and Canada, surprise DNA study reveals.

Roger Wiens has been a Mars explorer since he was 11 years old. He now leads the SuperCam instrument team on NASA’s Mars ...

Ancient organisms may have left microscopic "biosignatures" on Mars. That's according to NASA scientists, who say a rock ...

“The most likely trigger was an impact on a larger asteroid parent of Ryugu, which fractured the rock and melted buried ice, ...

A planetary scientist walks through the sensors and systems that went into the recent detection of potential biosignatures.