Researchers face a race against time as ice melts faster than they can recover artifacts, with many precious archaeological finds at risk of being destroyed by weather conditions before they can be ...

Incredible new discoveries in the Yucatan rainforest are rewriting the history of the ancient Maya. Hidden beneath thick layers of jungle, a vast network of meticulously built roads has been uncovered ...

By studying the chemical makeup of a stalagmite from a cave in Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula, the researchers discovered a ...

A team of scientists claims to have discovered the location of Noah’s Ark on a 3,000-year-old Babylonian stone tablet. This ...

Scientists uncovered water sealed beneath Canada’s crust for over two billion years. Salty, bitter and microbe-tinged, the ancient find could hold secrets about Earth’s past and life beyond.

Asteroids floating through our solar system are debris left over from when our planetary neighborhood formed 4.6 billion ...

Beneath Australia's soils lie ancient aquifers which supply 30% of the water consumed across the country. The groundwater ...

A team of scientists, including researchers from our Earth Sciences Department, has discovered new evidence that long-lasting droughts played a major ...