Our Solar System may once have housed an extra world that no longer exists. This long-lost world may have been almost as big as Mars before it suffered a cataclysmic end. This research was published in Earth and Planetary Science...

Scientific dating proves streaks on walls of Bacon Hole, near the Mumbles in south Wales, is Palaeolithic rock art… Archaeologists have used the latest scientific means to date the rock art, discovering that it was in fact created 17,100 years...

How was iron produced 2,000 years ago in Senegal? A recent study at the Didé West 1 archaeological site, in the Falémé Valley in eastern Senegal, sheds light on an ancient iron production technique.

The 4,000-year-old skull of a Bronze Age child buried in what's now Uzbekistan bears scars from a cranial surgery known as trepanation. It is the oldest documented evidence of surgery in Central Asia and one of the oldest examples of...