The wheel was likely invented around 6,000 years ago, but a new analysis of curious rocks from Israel suggests that wheel-like technologies existed even earlier.

Archaeologists may have uncovered one of the earliest examples of rotational tools, a discovery that could shed light on the ...

A recently shared image of a distant galaxy surrounded by three concentric rings challenges our understanding of galactic ...

As one of the oldest living Elves in Middle Earth during the Second through Fourth ... thou shalt rekindle hearts to the valor of old in a world that grows chill. Gandalf’s ring of power, Narya, had ...

Researchers have named two newly discovered freshwater snail species from Brazil after characters from The Lord of the Rings.

When NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft flew by Uranus in 1986, it provided scientists' first—and, so far, only—close glimpse of ...

We know from The Lord of the Rings that Tolkien crafted endless stars in his legendarium, but are there other planets too?