A new type of object found in the early universe has puzzled astronomers for years, but they may finally have some answers.

For over two millennia, the ancient settlement of Lutetia bore witness to the city that became Paris. But its precise location remained uncertain for centuries.

One Earth day rarely adds up to exactly 24 hours. Scientists found one (of many) reasons why.

The very first bats likely emerged 65 million years ago—and now we know where.

"Second-generation planets are worlds that form out of the material a star casts off as it dies. They're incredibly rare."

The haunting beauty of the universe is on full display in this year's astrophotography competition.

The 3,500-year history of sheeppox was written into the books—quite literally.

The team operating a remote chemistry lab onboard NASA’s Curiosity rover won a Gizmodo Science Fair award for discovering compelling chemical evidence that Mars could have once supported life.

The team calls the discovery a “minor miracle.”

Numerous leafy shoots are now sprouting around the base of the tree’s stump, which is located near Hadrian’s Wall in northern England

The Jefferson County Sheriff's Office shared video and a funny post after a tortoise named Lard escaped a yard last month.

Sound of Music Salzburg, devoted to the pop culture phenomenon and story that inspired it, opened Sept. 20 in the city where it all began.

The team also found a new species covered in parasites.

Archaeologists excavating in the ancient Hittite capital of Hattusha have uncovered a fragment of the world's oldest peace treaty, signed around 1269 B.C.

The Atacama Desert in Chile is thought to be the oldest non-polar desert in the world.

Elias 2-24 b challenges even our best models of planet formation.

The Herculaneum scrolls were discovered in the 1700s. It's taken centuries for researchers to read one of them in its entirety.

The tiny cats only measure between one and two feet long and weigh between four and six pounds.

A new study could help farmers adapt to an underappreciated threat to cocoa harvests.

After developing the biggest-ever map of Roman roads, a team of archaeologists has found that some of our most basic assumptions about them may be way off.

The adult dinosaur had a 13-foot stride, and moved about as fast as a human walking at a brisk pace.

The “natural kiln hypothesis” argues that intense wildfires taught prehistoric humans that fire hardened clay—and that this could be useful for making new tools.

When you crank up the temperature and pressure, ice gets really wonky.

Despite their name, Tasmanian devils could be found across mainland Australia thousands of years ago.

Rather than simply raising the contrast between colors, the decorrelation method maps the original colors to an expanded range.

The findings include bones and tools that hint at the ancient human relative's biology, diet, and lifestyle.

The city of Mesen lay in a key strategic location for ancient Egypt's military campaigns at the time.

Sea sponges are some of the world’s simplest animals – but even so, the rhythm of night and day kicks off a crucial stage of their life cycle.

Archaeologists with the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences found the skeletal remains of a young man hidden in a 5th century jar. Now they want to know how he got there.

Recent images by Hubble revealed a decagonal-shaped wave around Saturn's south pole

Scary as it looks, Thismia daemona is probably at high risk of extinction, researchers say.

Researchers have been searching for this elusive substance for years. One team may have finally found something.

Dating back roughly 240 million years to the Triassic period, it was left by a large, 12-foot-long crocodile ancestor called a Chirotherium or "hand-beast".

Archaeologists in the Czech Republic have found a 6,500-year-old suspected ritual site built with Stone Age astronomical knowledge just outside of Prague.

Archaeologists say the skeleton, found with a padlock on her toe and a sickle laid across her throat, is likely a case of a community fearing the demonic return of the dead.

The preservation was “absolutely magical" given the highly acidic nature of the soil.

The findings suggest that the artists of ancient Egypt cared deeply about every step of their work.

A new study shows how wolf digestion in northern Minnesota helps accelerate the growth of blueberries, and may help spread their seeds across the landscape.

Explore these wonderlands of waste.

A recent discovery of fossilized shark teeth points to at least seven extinct species that once lived in the Western Desert.

Archaeologists uncovered ancient Roman inscriptions worshipping a previously unknown goddess, inside a cave that might have had religious significance since the Stone Age.

The unusual-looking bobolink is what's called a bilateral gynandromorph. The bird behaved like a male, eventually wooing a mate and raising fledglings

Discover 14 of the world's oldest living things, from ancient trees and fungi to a 15,000-year-old Antarctic sponge and 4,000-year-old coral.

The "quantum droplet" represents an unlikely, powerful union of two different categories of particles.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope found definitive evidence of a dwarf galaxy merging with the Milky Way just 2 billion years after the Big Bang.

The age of the rock art at Wetar means it could be one of the earliest places outside of Taiwan to document the Austronesian migration.

A new analysis of fossilized bones from crocodiles’ archosaur ancestors suggest they reverted back to cold-blood to become better silent predators.