Historical texts that mentioned details about the battle site helped researchers match the images to the lost town of ...

It's rare to find gladiator memorabilia from Roman Britain, but archaeologists by Hadrian's Wall have just found a 2,000-year-old knife handle depicting a left-handed fighter.

The James Webb Space Telescope's discovery of unusually bright and massive galaxies soon after the Big Bang has cast doubt on ...

The James Webb telescope has spotted three gigantic "red monster" galaxies that were spawned soon after the Big Bang. They're ...

Voyager 2's 1986 flyby of Uranus, the main source of our knowledge of the icy planet, could have come at the same time as a ...

A new model based on the famous alien-hunting Drake equation suggests that some parallel universes within the hypothetical ...

A teenager in Canada is critically ill with the country's first human case of H5N1 bird flu. Health officials aren't sure how ...

By tapping into the enigmatic theory of how neurons transmit signals, scientists have proven they can one day build computer ...

Necrotizing fasciitis is a rare, life-threatening illness caused by bacteria that aggressively attack the soft tissue of the ...

A 3D map of our cosmic neighborhood has revealed hot and cold regions as well as an "escape tunnel" from our local bubble.

A new species of tardigrades with thousands of genes that become more active when exposed to radiation could help in devising ...

Deep-sea researchers have discovered a strange glowing sea slug off the coast of California that lives in the water column — ...