Ancient skywatchers consistently described Theta Eridani as one of the brightest stars visible from Earth, yet modern ...
A violent collision in the main asteroid belt may have sent debris raining across the inner solar system about 800 million ...
Fragments of a star catalog from the second century B.C. have turned up in a manuscript that had been erased and written over centuries later. A new analysis of the religious manuscript shows that the ...
Ancient DNA can be a powerful tool for helping us reconstruct the long-dead past. Most surviving genetic material comes from ...
A mysterious form of plague that spread across Eurasia thousands of years before the Black Death has finally revealed a crucial clue. Scientists analyzing ancient DNA discovered the bacterium Yersinia ...