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 Ancient Maya may have had large libraries and an advanced writing system, but very little remains today. Indeed, only ...

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

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

Water discoveries in space happen all the time. But this one’s actually a big deal, and not just because some scientists got excited (though they absolutely did). NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory ...

NASA confirms water`s chemical signature on interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, a discovery that could reveal secrets of distant ...

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.

The European Southern Observatory captured a nebula bat during a survey of the Milky Way's galactic plane. Astronomers have ...

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

Astronomer Avi Loeb suggests that a quasi-satellite may be the "relic of an interplanetary mission by humanity from the 1960s ...

Scientists at Tel Aviv University have developed a new way to investigate dark matter by studying faint radio waves from the Universe’s earliest era, known as the cosmic dark ages. Their research ...

Astronomers have spotted a quasi-moon near Earth — and the small space rock has likely been hanging out near our planet ...