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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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