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

Astronomers have recently detected mysterious radio signals emanating from the ancient comet 12P/Pons-Brooks, capturing the ...

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 ...

James Webb Space telescope spots 'big red dot' in the ancient universe: A ravenous supermassive black hole named 'BiRD' ...

Faint radio echoes from the Universe’s dark ages may hold the key to revealing what dark matter truly is. Credit: Tel Aviv University. Scientists at Tel Aviv University have dev ...

The researchers’ reconstruction shows that by mixing four resets at 358 months (the inex cycle) for every one at 223, the Maya could have maintained accuracy across generations, a mathematical ...

Some of Earth's oldest rocks buried deep in Western Australia may hold new clues about the dramatic event that gave rise to ...

Astronomers may have found the universe’s first stars formed after the Big Bang, using JWST data and gravitational lensing.

For years, astronomers have been on the hunt for the first generation of stars, primordial relics of the early universe. And ...