Megan Gannon

Who were the people who inspired the names for NASA's Cassini spacecraft and the European Space Agency's Huygens probe?

Archaeologists opened a royal Maya tomb in Guatemala and found a jade mask and bones covered in bright red paint.

The concept of zero as a number was revolutionary in mathematics. Historians have long known the idea came from India, but its exact origins remain murky.

Two illegal gold miners were allegedly overheard talking about the attack in a bar.

Military brats of ancient Rome probably played soldier to pass the time.

Archaeologists in England are excavating the ruins of the fort of Vindolanda, which was once at the northern edge of the Roman Empire.

By analyzing what's left of an ice age grave site, researchers determined that a human skeleton could be up to 13,000 years old, making it "one of the oldest human skeletons from America."

Archaeologists discovered residues of wine in a steamy cave in Sicily.

One letter offers a candid opinion on the United States: "I detest America."

Maine archaeologists completed a mission to map World War I wrecks and British war graves off the coast of Orkney.

Scientists took DNA from Bronze Age skeletons to learn more about the origins of the Minoan and Mycenaean people, who built the first advanced civilizations in Greece.

The image of Albert Einstein sticking his tongue out is probably one of most ubiquitous (and memorable) photos of the Nobel Prize-winning physicist.

Divers have recovered the main telegraph machine from the Lusitania, the wreck at the center of one of the most infamous maritime disasters of the 20th century.

Archaeologists found a lost lunch box near the top of a mountain in the Swiss Alps. They were even able to identify its 3,500-year-old contents.

Hurricanes swirling in the Pacific Ocean could lock arms in a dance step meteorologists call the Fujiwhara effect. The do-si-do may lead in Hurricane Hilary cannibalizing Irwin.

The legendary birthplace of King Arthur could give up its secrets about early medieval life in Britain.

Space archaeologists want to understand the "microsociety" of astronauts aboard the International Space Station.

Divers completed a recovery mission to the wreck of the Tulsamerican, an American bomber that crashed off the coast of Croatia in 1944.

Eight sunken ships have been found around Fourni, a cluster of Greek islands that's a hotspot for wrecks, a team of underwater archaeologists announced.

A cluster of Greek islands called Fourni is a hotspot for shipwrecks, the oldest of which date back as early as the sixth century B.C.

Hobby Lobby bought thousands of objects, including cuneiform tablets and and clay stamp seals, that were smuggled out of Iraq, according to federal authorities.

This summer marks the 80th anniversary of Amelia Earhart's disappearance. In the latest search for clues, archaeologists and dogs will go to a remote Pacific island to look for bones.

Archaeologists are trying to make sense of an artificial "volcano" built in Peru.

The U.S. Coast Guard discovered one of its lost ships 100 years after the vessel sank off the coast of California.