As humans began to explore outer space in the latter half of the 20th century, radio waves proved a powerful tool. Scientists could send out radio waves to communicate with satellites, rockets and ...

Scientists have uncovered clues to a 4,000-year-old mystery — the hidden logic behind where ancient Chinese built their tombs ...

AI software has made it possible to consistently analyze thousands of historical texts, allowing scientists to carefully map ...

Karen Wigen is Frances and Charles Field Professor in History at Stanford University. Speaking with Srijana Mitra Das at Times Evoke, she discusses th ...

China will launch three astronauts toward its Tiangong space station today (Oct. 31), and you can watch the action live. A ...

Without the scholars of the Islamic Golden Age, who translated Ancient Greek, it is likely that ancient knowledge would now ...

Astronomers in China have detected rare radio emissions from the comet 12P/Pons-Brooks, revealing new clues about the inner ...

A research team led by the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has used the Tianma Radio Telescope to conduct multi-band radio observations of the returning comet ...

A mineral of gold from Australia is displayed in the Natural History Museum in Paris in 2014. (Photo by BERTRAND GUAY / AFP) A Chinese woman has been arrested and charged over the theft of gold from ...

Foreign vloggers pose for photos at the Taosi Archaeological Site in Linfen city, Shanxi province, on Thursday. The visit was part of the Discovering Shanxi's Ancient Chinese Architecture — Overseas ...

The findings suggest that about 800 million years after the Big Bang, energy from newborn black holes and the fading embers of the first stars was already warming vast clouds of intergalactic hydrogen ...

In ancient Chinese astronomy, the sky ecliptic was divided into four sections. Each of these sections contained seven mansions, and together they formed the 28 Mansions. The 28 Mansions may be ...