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For over 700 days, a mysterious spacecraft has been orbiting the Earth, and yet no one other than the U.S. Air Force knows why. So what exactly is going on here? First, some background from IFL Science: "This is the fifth mission of the X-37B space plane, an uncrewed and solar-powered...

When "Lucy" the now-famous Australopithecine was discovered in Ethiopia in 1974 by paleoanthropologists, researcher's minds were full of questions, but the biggest question of all was: what did Lucy's ancestors look like? That question has now been answered, at least in part, thanks to the discovery of a nearly...

Archaeologists were recently exploring in Croatia when the happened upon something that immediately caught their eye and has subsequently set off debate about what they found, according to Ancient Origins: "(The researchers) unearthed three ancient alien-like skeletons and two have  artificially elongated skulls. Since 12,000-years-ago in ancient China, all over the ancient...

The Egyptian pyramids are miracles of construction and scientific achievement, which is even more amazing when you consider that they were built thousands of years ago, long before we had the extensive knowledge that has been acquired over centuries. But were the pyramids also constructed to produce sound waves that...

The vast majority of us learned about ancient Egypt in elementary and high school, and it's likely that we all have the same basic set of references and images that come to mind when someone mentions the subject. Those are likely to be: Pyramids The Great Sphinx King Tut ...

For years, the The University of Edinburgh's Anatomical Museum has called her "Hilda," and kept her skull for a very important and historical reason: She lived to the age of 60, nearly twice the average life expectancy when she died some 2,000 years ago. That's where Karen Fleming, a student...

For those who follow the stories of the ancient Sumerian tablets first discovered in the 1800s, you know that gold is central to the story. The Anunnaki, extraterrestrials from another planet, mined for precious gold in southern Africa when they arrived on Earth. The element has unique qualities that...

In 2007, paleoanthropologist and rock art researcher Genevieve von Petzinger decided to set out to study geometric signs found in caves and other sites, dating back as far as 40,000 years ago during the Stone Age. While most people are familiar with the familiar petroglyphs of animals, little was...

Astronomers at Baylor University have just found something on the Moon's largest crater that has left them confused and wondering how exactly it got there in the first place. According to Futurism.com: "A team of astronomers found a 'large excess of mass' under the Moon’s largest crater, the Aitken basin —...

Every time you take a sip of fine wine, you may very well be drinking the same wine that Roman emperors drank in ancient times. At least that's what a new analysis of grape DNA reveals. While wine has become more diverse in modern times, there are still several ancient...