And now it carries a handsome cash prize: $1 million for anyone who can decipher the script of the ancient Indus Valley civilization. Relatively little is known about the creators of the script ...

Taylor said crews searched all 10 floors of the building. They found a construction worker stuck in the elevator, and everyone else was able to escape. The man was taken to the hospital in stable ...

Asteroid samples fetched by NASA hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty remains of an ancient water world, scientists reported Wednesday. The findings provide the ...

China is building a new military command centre near Beijing that is 10 times the size of the Pentagon, US intelligence officials have said. Satellite images of the base, about 20 miles south-west ...

Ancient Egyptian person: Well it’s not! We need to know exactly when the river will flood, so that we plant our crops at the right time. That way, we can take advantage of all the nutrients left ...

Auckland Hospital's main building is still without hot water and Winston Peters defends comments he made in Parliament about immigrants. Video / NZ Herald, Getty Images Commercial builds in ...

Lidar technology has uncovered a 15th-century Zapotec city hidden beneath the dense jungles of Guiengola in Mexico.

CI chondrites are rich in clay and formed when ice melted in an ancient asteroid ... Some of these types of molecules are the building blocks for life. This combination of rock, water and organics ...

NASA has presented rock and dust samples from the asteroid Bennu which exhibit some of the chemical building blocks of life.

The Polish-Armenian Archaeological Expedition has completed its first season of research at the site of Argishtikhinili. This city, dating to the first half of […] ...