An ancient Martian system of canyons and valleys could be home to archaic life forms, a ground-breaking scientific paper has ...

Chinese scientists have identified eight potential karst caves on Mars, formed by water, marking a significant breakthrough in astrobiology.

Mars has never looked more like a planet built for hiding secrets. A cluster of eight vast, water-carved caves appears almost engineered to shield fragile chemistry, or even biology, from the brutal ...

The Ellora Caves are among the most astonishing architectural wonders of ancient India, carved from a single rock mass over 1,500 years ago. At its center stands the Kailash Temple, created using the ...

Researchers have found a "unique" collection of "cave pearls"—some of which contain archaeological artifacts—in an ancient tunnel, a study has reported. Cave pearls are a type of "speleothem"—a term ...

Deep in an underground cave in Guatemala, archaeologists stumbled upon hundreds of fragmented human bones showing signs of injury. The discovery paints a chilling picture: The people here were ...

Across time and cultures civilizations have preserved remarkably similar accounts of sky beings who bestowed the foundational elements of civilization, language, mathematics, architecture, medicine, ...