Elizabeth Rayne

These princesses didn't just carry weapons to the afterlife—they bore the scars of using them.

It guided Polynesian wayfinders for thousands of years, but the cause remains unknown

Here's what you'll learn when you read this story: Looking back into time, paleontologists discovered a new extinct order of marsupials—Keeunamorphia—including three new extinct species and two new extinct genera.

Four decades after the Jules Rimet Cup disappeared in Rio, its fate remains soccer's coldest case.

A new deep-sea probe witnessed the silent, violent magma flows that heal our planet's scars.

Someone carved a notch to lock two logs together—half a million years before Homo sapiens.

For 500 years, Bermeja anchored a $22 billion oil claim. Then, the search vessel found nothing.

Scientists say idled tankers are incubating invaders built to survive anywhere on the planet.

If the cosmos is lopsided, the foundation of modern cosmology starts to look a little shaky.

Here's what you'll learn when you read this story: Cosmologists have long assumed that our expanding universe is isotropic, meaning it looks the same when viewed from any angle.