For more than a century, one of cosmology’s biggest paradoxes has remained unresolved: if the second law of thermodynamics says the Universe is becoming increasingly disordered, how did it produce galaxies, stars, planets—and ultimately life?...

Humanity may once have spoken far more languages than exist today, according to a new study published in Science. Researchers estimate that the number of spoken and signed languages may have reached as many as...

Archaeologists in El Salvador have uncovered nearly 3,000-year-old human remains buried beneath layers of volcanic ash, offering a rare glimpse into one of Central America’s earliest known societies. The discovery, announced by the country’s Ministry...

The growing militarization of space, the rapid expansion of satellite networks, and increasingly compressed nuclear decision timelines could create dangerous new risks for global security, according to American physicist Laura Grego. In an interview with...

Archaeologists working in Egypt have uncovered an extraordinary piece of ancient history: a fragment of Homer’s Iliad deliberately placed inside a Roman-era mummy during the embalming process. The discovery is believed to be the first...

A centuries-old religious text that never became part of the Bible, used by most Christians, is at the center of a viral online conspiracy theory. Social media posts claim the Book of Enoch describes a...

Scientists have identified the first true sugar ever detected in interstellar space, a discovery that could reshape our understanding of how the building blocks of life reached Earth billions of years ago. The molecule, called...

For centuries, physicists have treated time as one of the universe’s most fundamental ingredients. But what if time isn’t something that exists independently? What if it only appears because things change? A new experiment from...

Imagine an airplane’s flight recorder, but built for an entire planet. That is the idea behind Earth’s Black Box, a massive steel structure under development in Tasmania that aims to preserve a permanent record of...

Earth has survived asteroid impacts, ice ages, and mass extinctions over its 4.5-billion-year history. But its greatest long-term threat isn’t an incoming space rock or a supervolcano; it’s the Sun itself. A new study suggests...