Scientists figured out that the universe is billions of years old — after years of reading ancient rocks and dying stars, and ...

As ancient humans left Africa, they encountered many harsh environments including the Sahara and the high Arctic, but one of ...

Evidence is now stronger than ever that the mysterious population collapse of Rapa Nui never actually happened. Recent ...

Earth's Ediacaran Period, roughly 630 to 540 million years ago, has always been something of a magnetic minefield for ...

Deep inside caves, water dripping from the ceiling creates one of nature’s most iconic formations: stalagmites. These pillars ...

Go visit a sacred ancient site, if possible one featuring a high density of megalithic architecture, and when you get back tell me, hand on heart, you didn’t feel something. Modern archaeology, for ...

New research reveals that Easter Island’s moai statues were built to “walk” upright using a rhythmic rocking motion.

By listening for ghostly radio echoes from the early Universe, scientists believe future Moon missions could determine what ...

Easter Island’s Moai statues weren’t dragged - they walked. Physics and experiments uncover how ancient islanders made stone ...

For generations, the massive moai of Easter Island, called Rapa Nui by the locals, have stood in quiet testimony to one of ...