"Cosmic archaeologists" have discovered an iron-deficient second-generation star, which provides evidence of how ancient stars enriched their successors.

In January, while examining ancient texts at Italy’s National Central Library of Florence, historian Ivan Malara found an unexpected set of handwritten notes. He was reviewing a 1551 printed edition ...

The latest breakthrough in pyramid research did not begin in the desert but in orbit, where radar images from space have traced a lost branch of the Nile that once flowed beside Egypt’s most famous ...

Discovered in the Pictor II dwarf galaxy, star PicII-503 has an extreme deficiency in iron—less than 1/40,000th of the sun. This signature makes it the clearest example of a star within a primordial ...

A discovery in Spain shows that ancient people in the Iberian Peninsula were making objects out of iron from meteorites. Two unusual pieces found in the Treasure of Villena were made from this ...