History books are filled with powerful kingdoms that ruled for centuries, building massive cities and changing the world ...

Complex, intelligent life in the galaxy appears vanishingly rare, with the nearest possible civilization perhaps 33,000 light-years distant. Yet despite the odds, scientists insist that continuing the ...

Battles over Columbus Day aren't really about Christopher Columbus at all -- they're about whether America should exist. "Columbus's journey carried thousands of years of wisdom, philosophy, reason, ...

Researchers have identified unusual radio signals coming from deep space. These enigmatic waves might have originated from cosmic energy explosions, possibly linked to a distant neutron star, or they ...

Power struggles? Drought? Overpopulation? Whatever happened to the Maya remains a mystery—with clues hidden in the jungle. Temple in TikalAbove the thick tree roots of the Petén jungle rises Temple V ...

In 1950, famed astrophysicist Enrico Fermi posed a profound question during a casual lunch with colleagues: Where is everybody? In other words, if there’s an extremely high probability that advanced ...

Oh, how my heart has hardened. Last night, Eastern Standard Time, I was astounded by the frenzied joy in the streets of Tel Aviv and Jerusalem when the grieving activists learned that soon all the ...

For President Donald Trump, tariffs — or the threat of them — can bend nations to his will. The president has used them not ...

Archaeologists excavated hundreds of gold and silver coins in the Czech Republic they believe date back 2,500 years. The stash of coins features a mix of never-seen-before styles, some with animal ...

Heat-trapping carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere jumped by the highest amount on record last year, soaring to a level not seen in human civilization and "turbo-charging" the Earth's climate, ...

Civilization 7 introduces a few massive changes to the series, most notably the Ages mechanic that has you swap out your civilization for a new one as the game progresses through Antiquity, ...