The museum campus – the largest devoted to a single civilisation – took more than 20 years to build. Read more at ...

A new study shows that Etruscan cities grew through shifting land use, farming, and settlement patterns in ancient Italy.

Researchers using the James Webb Space Telescope spotted huge stars leaking nitrogen in an early galaxy, hinting that such ...

The space agency said supernovas typically brighten rapidly over a period of several weeks before they slowly start to dim. This example, however, took months to ...

Regular, alternating layers in Gale Crater may have been deposited as the result of tides raised by a moon at least 18 times ...

For the first time, scientists have mapped vast, continent-scale river drainage systems on Mars — ancient networks that may ...

The Webb space telescope observed a supernova that took place when the universe was 730 million years old, setting a new ...

Supernovae aren't one of the JWST's main science themes, but the perceptive telescope is full of surprises. Recently, it ...

The findings, described in the journal Nature, push back the earliest known date for controlled fire-making by roughly ...

A faint, ancient flash of light detected by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has broken the record for the most distant ...

Astronomers have sighted the oldest known stellar explosion, dating back to when the universe was less than a billion years ...

A NASA planetary scientist has proposed what may be the first scientifically sound explanation for the mysterious Star of Bethlehem that guided the three wise men to the infant Jesus over two ...