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, ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has looked back into deep time to find “rubies” or “little red dots” stretched across the ...

Karen Wigen is Frances and Charles Field Professor in History at Stanford University. Speaking with Srijana Mitra Das at Times Evoke, she discusses th ...

For Halloween, our space photo of the day shows a brilliant orange sunset over Kitt Peak Observatory in Arizona.

Astronomers have traced the 12-billion-year journey of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, believed to be the oldest comet ever ...

Astonishing new archaeological research has uncovered the mathematical secrets behind the ancient Maya’s ability to predict ...

Imagine digging into a quiet village field and finding signs of a whole city that existed more than 2,000 years ago. That’s what happened in Keeladi — a small village near Madurai that is now ...

Our 10 recommended books for November include a memoir from Margaret Atwood and a new novel from John Irving that revisits a ...

The research team scoured the 12 th century C.E. Dresden Codex—a rare, fully preserved Maya book known for its eclipse table.

Without the scholars of the Islamic Golden Age, who translated Ancient Greek, it is likely that ancient knowledge would now ...