China’s reported orbital weapon test revived a Cold War nightmare, and exposed a missile-defense gap the U.S. may struggle to close before deployment.

The discovery shows that deep subsurface environments can host complex biological communities far from the surface. The researchers studied water extracted from gas wells and identified hundreds of ...

A new simulation suggests the Milky Way could be hiding a vast population of invisible black holes waiting to be found.

Ancient tombstones found in Egypt reveal a startling blend of Greek and Egyptian gods buried beneath Nile Delta sands.

Ancient DNA from China’s Shimao settlement reveals new clues about its people, origins, family systems, and ancient rituals.

The opening of Casimir IV Jagiellon’s tomb in 1973 led to 15 deaths. Scientists later linked the cases to fungal spores inside the crypt.

Public flashcards exposed sensitive nuclear weapons details across Europe, revealing how an everyday study tool opened a startling security breach. © Nuclear Weapons ...

More than 400 Soviet gold bars lay on the floor of the Barents Sea for nearly 40 years before a complex salvage operation recovered almost all of them. The gold had been transported as payment from ...

Inside a light-sealed chamber, a camera watched a living mouse in almost complete darkness. Nothing appeared unusual to the human eye. The animal did not glow, flash, or cast a visible outline, yet ...

A new genetic analysis suggests that the evolutionary history of modern humans is more complex than previously understood. Researchers report evidence of two previously unknown archaic hominin ...

Inside the high-risk salvage that cut into a war grave 800 feet below the Barents Sea and brought Stalin’s lost wartime cargo back to the surface. The first gold bar came out of the wreck on September ...

A prehistoric-style rock painting in South Africa has become the focus of a scientific debate after one researcher suggested it may represent a dicynodont, an extinct animal that vanished around 200 ...