A look into the Serapeum in Egypt - dozens of gigantic granite coffins with no clear purpose.

Until about 60,000 years ago, diminutive hominin cousins, Homo floresiensis (affectionately nicknamed Hobbits for obvious ...

The fight over the 91-year-old’s reincarnation is becoming a test of China’s power over Tibet—and whether his spiritual ...

Some scientists believe the quasi-moon could have been created when a massive impact knocked a chunk of our own moon into ...

Are we alone in the universe? Consider mysterious "extraterrestrial" radio signals. Unexplained gases on other planets.

A Chinese spacecraft on a mission to collect and return samples of a near-Earth asteroid beamed back its first image of its ...

Every fossil is a time capsule with its own story to tell—or sing. Now paleontologists have listened as never before, recreating an insect song that has not been heard in 165 million years. Working in ...

A humanoid sea creature popularized in Japanese internet forums, the Ningen is an Antarctic cryptid that may have first been ...

The first six months of 2026 have produced four stand-out sci-fi movies – and they all have one thing in common, says Bethan ...

A poster of Three-Body displayed outside the MIPCOM venue. [Photo provided to China Daily] One of China's most popular sci-fi series, Three-Body — an online series adapted from Hugo Award-winning ...