Across the globe, a race is under way to crack some of the last mysterious forms of writing that have never been translated.

Archaeologists have discovered a "lost Pompeii" that once towered above the ancient Roman city, with structures reaching up ...

These out-of-place artifacts, or OOPArts, are surprising for their place and time — but there's an explanation behind each ...

In the Alaskan Arctic, a quiet revolution in permafrost science is rewriting what we thought we knew about frozen ground and ...