Astonishing evidence for an ancient form of sophisticated machining into very hard stone can be seen on one of the artifacts found on the Ancient Egyptian site of Elephantine Island. After several ...

An investigation into the evidence for ancient high technology found across the world. We look into the evidence for ...

A specially trained algorithm could aid the search for biological activity both on the early Earth and on other worlds.

MIT researchers traced chemical fossils in ancient rocks back to the ancestors of today’s demosponges. A team of geochemists ...

Researchers have unearthed a remarkably well-preserved ancient relic in Japan, dating back over 10,000 years.

With the help of newly identified bones, an enigmatic 3.4-million-year-old hominin foot found in 2009, is assigned to a ...

Scientists found 3.3 billion-year-old biosignatures in ancient meteorites and fossils—a billion years older than we thought ...

Traces of a previously unknown group of people, genetically distinct from their neighbors, have persisted for at least 8,000 ...

Cornell researchers have found that a new DNA sequencing technology can be used to study how transposons move within and bind ...

Scientists have uncovered the oldest chemical traces of life on Earth using a new machine learning method that identifies ...

NASA's Perseverance rover discovers shiny metallic rock on Mars that could be a meteorite from an ancient asteroid, ...

Agency says it may have found signs of life on the Red Planet Mars during a press conference about comet 3I/ATLAS ...