Researchers believe they’ve discovered that the fish-shaped stones lodged in high-altitude areas were connected to a large ...

New simulations suggest globular clusters form in multiple ways and point to a mysterious new type of star system that may ...

For centuries, astronomers have puzzled over the origins of one of the universe's oldest and densest stellar systems, known ...

USF and FAU researchers identify bacterium behind 1,500-year-old pandemic mystery. For the first time, scientists have obtained direct genomic evidence of the bacterium responsible for the Plague of ...

Invaluable research is finally starting to uncover answers to the mystery surrounding a near-complete skull found in a Greek cave in 1960.

Their skeletons remain almost perfectly intact except for broken wings, clean fractures to the humerus that researchers say ...

Scientists have found the "missing piece" of the puzzle behind the devastating disease that reshaped the Byzantine Empire.

With wingspans of less than eight inches (20 cm), these hatchlings are among the smallest of all known pterosaurs [Rudolf Hima] A post-mortem examination "150 million years in the making" has revealed ...

The mystery of 6,000-year-old "dragon stones" placed at high altitudes has been solved as archaeologists have connected them with an "ancient water cult". The prehistoric monuments in the ancient ...