In England, Archaeologists found a mysterious purple lump and it turns out that this was at one time worth more than gold. The lump was actually a very rare purple dye that was used in ancient ...

The Kangju people lived in Central Asia (southern Kazakhstan) for nearly a millennia, but experts know very little about them. A new discovery of artifacts, recovered from a 2,000-year-old burial ...

This strange 'orb' was discovered underwater in the Channel Islands. Image by Ocean Exploration Trust. This unidentified purple orb stumped scientists on board the Nautilus research vessel during a ...

A man was left shocked after he spotted a mysterious creature with "venomous spines" that had washed up on a beach. Dennis Chan said he stumbled across the "uncommon sight" which was buried in the ...

An enigmatic L-shaped structure found underground near the pyramids at Giza may be an entrance to a mysterious deeper feature below it. Using remote sensing techniques, archaeologists in Egypt ...

An atmospheric phenomenon known as STEVE has a secret twin that appears before the break of dawn and flows in the opposite direction, new research finds. A purple ribbon of light in the sky known ...

A purple ribbon of light in the sky known as "STEVE" appears to have a long-lost twin. This isn't the plot of a space soap opera; it's a finding from a trio of European Space Agency satellites ...

We thought we broadly understood how planets and stars form. But the discovery of dozens of pairs of young planets in a nearby nebula threatens to turn that on its head. They are worlds that ...

Artist's view of exoplanet SPECULOOS-3 b orbiting its star. The planet is as big as the Earth, while its star is slightly larger than Jupiter, but much more massive. (NASA/JPL-Caltech via Courthouse ...

A journey into the eye-opening realm of insects to explore how scientists are using traditional and cutting-edge techniques to search for a single, common insect ancestor. Show more Insects are ...