Homo floresiensis — a small ancient human species nicknamed the “hobbit” — may have gone extinct around 50,000 years ago…

QUICK FACTSName: Ash PendantWhat it is: A silver pendant with a female figureWhere it is from: Aska hamlet, in southern…

By the time the Artemis II Orion spacecraft launches to the Moon next year, its many components will already have…

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More than 400 years ago, the English colonist and explorer John Smith wrote in his journal that there were Indigenous…

Mars was once home to wet, humid areas that received heavy rainfall, similar to tropical regions on Earth, a new…

A unique “sacrificial complex” discovered between two burial mounds in Russia has revealed new information about the funerary rituals of…

Quick factsWhat it is: Emission nebula NGC 6820 and open star cluster NGC 6823Where it is: 6,000 light-years away in…

Live concerts, fireworks and roaring stadium crowds can reach dangerously high volumes — loud enough to cause permanent hearing loss.…