Astronomers discover a 3-billion-year-old white dwarf, LSPM J0207+3331, actively accumulationplanetary material long after its star’s death, revealing ongoing dynamics in ancient stellar remnants.

More than a thousand years ago, astronomers from the Maya civilization developed one of the most sophisticated time-keeping ...

The Maya civilization possessed the remarkable ability to forecast solar eclipses with stunning accuracy for over 700 years, using nothing more than careful observation and mathematical genius. A ...

The Zond 1 probe was the second Soviet spacecraft to reach Venus, and the first lander to have been sent there. However, ...

Evidently, it’s a big week for news involving comets, as a team of astronomers now reports the detection of an intriguing ...

Scientists at Tel Aviv University have developed a new way to investigate dark matter by studying faint radio waves from the ...

The researchers’ reconstruction shows that by mixing four resets at 358 months (the inex cycle) for every one at 223, the ...

An old galaxy reveals clusters of young stars that have formed in an unusually synchronized fashion, challenging the idea ...

Researchers decode the Dresden Codex eclipse table, revealing how Mayan daykeepers predicted solar eclipses before modern ...

Also known as the “Seven Sisters,” the striking cluster has long been used as an important seasonal marker and appears high ...

Astronomers in China have detected rare radio emissions from the comet 12P/Pons-Brooks, revealing new clues about the inner ...