The Temple of Kukulkan at Chichen Itza, also known as El Castillo, stands as a testament to the Mayan civilization's advanced ...
The first ancient Egyptian astronomical observatory has been discovered. Located in the ancient city of Buto, this 2,600-year ...
Even from space, you wouldn’t detect something important about Earth’s shape: It’s not perfectly round. It’s actually a ...
It is just 7 pm but feels like midnight. That’s how dark it is at Nakshatra Mahasabha, an astronomy and stargazing camping ...
This is perhaps best encapsulated in a Walt Whitman poem titled “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer.” The narrator describes ...
Astrophotographer Josh Dury’s photo of the Milky Way over Easter Island’s Moai statues has been honoured by NASA as Astronomy Photo of the Day.
Finding evidence for the first life ever to emerge on planet earth is a long, tough slog. But oddly enough, real answers may ultimately come from Mars.
Volcanoes were erupting on the mysterious far side of the moon billions of years ago just like on the side that we can see, ...
A Martian meteorite that landed on Earth more than a century ago has helped scientists learn about the history of water on the Red Planet.
The ancient Greek thinker Anaximander lent his prodigious talents to pre-Socratic Greek philosophy, geography, geometry, and cosmology.
The JWST’s FRESCO program, developed by the team, systematically analyzed emission-line galaxies from the dawn of the ...
Sixteenth century Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe laid the framework for modern cosmology without ever using a telescope.