Picture this: a small audience is quietly ushered into a darkened room. They gasp in awe, as a brilliant night sky shines above. They wonder—as many after them will do—what trickery has made the roof ...

An alternate explanation that fits the evidence is that Vesta was once part of a planet – but which planet that might been ...

A new study uses a paleotidal model to trace the formation of carbon-rich mud deposits over thousands of years.

Cuneiform tablets from ancient Babylon cover a range of topics, from exorcising ghosts to uncovering the location of Noah’s ...

The ancient pot was discovered by members of the Urban Cenotes organization, which preserves caves around the Yucatán Peninsula. Photo by the National Institute of Anthropology and History ...

Below, rows of long, narrow fields extended from Culebra Creek toward a man-made channel, the main artery of the valley’s centuries-old “acequia” irrigation system. This was the ... slaughterhouse, ...

What do the maps show? These maps show the average daily global solar exposure over Australia (each month,season and annually) for the period 1990 to 2019. Global solar exposure is the total amount of ...

The Italian Space Agency has picked European company Blue Skies Space to build a fleet of satellites around the moon to map the ancient universe. Blue Skies has partnered with another space ...

we’ll be using maps to tell you the story of each of London’s Tube lines. The images used in this story have been provided by TfL Corporate Archives. To find out more about the history of ...