Archaeologists working in western Asia Minor say they have mapped a dense constellation of 483 ancient settlements that once ...

Ancient Mars is coming into sharper focus as a planet laced with rivers, deltas and vast drainage basins, and that new map of ...

Religious maps from the 1300s showing tribal Israel inadvertently became the blueprint for how later mapmakers drew political ...

A backwards 1525 Bible map helped shape modern borders, influencing how we imagine territory, nations, and political space ...

Clay bricks from the building projects of ancient kings recorded a historical “map” of changes in the Earth’s magnetic field, a new study has found. About 3,000 years ago, for reasons that aren’t well ...

For the first time, scientists have mapped vast, continent-scale river drainage systems on Mars — ancient networks that may ...

Researchers created a seismic map of Earth's interior beneath the southeastern Pacific Ocean and discovered an ancient slab of oceanic crust that appears to be stuck midway through the mantle. When ...

These rocks offer evidence that Earth had a strong magnetic field 3.7 billion years ago, but scientists aren't sure where that field could've come from. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

Finland's river crystals hold clues about the formation of 'Scandinavia's' oldest bedrock 3.75 billion years ago. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here ...

More than half a billion years ago on a frigid, ice-covered Earth, glaciers stirred up ingredients for complex life by bulldozing land minerals and then depositing them in the ocean, according to a ...

When in Rome, do as the Romans do. A social media trend revealed a few years ago that men think about the Roman Empire, the most impressive one in human history, more often than they probably ever ...

To better understand the circadian clock in modern-day cyanobacteria, a research team has studied ancient timekeeping systems. They examined the oscillation of the clock proteins KaiA, KaiB, and KaiC ...