A helmet up for auction in London is a well-preserved example of the "Corinthian" helmets used by many hoplite warriors.

Black holes that have been obscured by clouds of dust still emit infrared light, enabling astronomers to spot them for the ...

Twenty years ago, the Huygens probe achieved humanity's first landing on a moon in the outer solar system when it touched ...

An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit ...

"The same physical process will take place in both cases — the explosive spring of the bent plates will release in the same ...

Archaeologists and Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung people are shedding new light on a series of enigmatic earth rings located in ...

"Recycling" an already transplanted organ could help save lives, but the procedure comes with additional risks, physicians ...

Research suggests that alcohol drives cancer by at least five different mechanisms, with the risk of cancer increasing the ...

Scientists have just resurrected "ELIZA," the world's first chatbot, from long-lost computer code — and it still works ...

New images from the North Sea show never-before-seen landforms that were carved by a single, colossal ice sheet 1 million ...

Meanwhile, inactive muscle and brown fat use little energy: One pound (0.45 kilogram) of relaxed muscle burns 6 calories and ...

Plate tectonics give Earth its mountains, earthquakes, continental drift and maybe even helped give rise to life itself. But ...