Peru's Ministry of Culture has confirmed a groundbreaking discovery that rewrites the history of ancient astronomy in the Americas. Archaeologists working at the Chankillo Archaeoastronomical Complex ...

A new study revisits ancient Chinese records to explore whether a comet could explain the Star of Bethlehem described in ...

The Large and Small Magellanic Clouds are irregular dwarf galaxies and satellites of the Milky Way. The LMC is about 163,000 ...

It seems the AI hype has turned into an AI bubble. There have been many bubbles before, from the Tulip mania of the 17th ...

These days, we would call them proprietary blends. But in the late 1500s and early 1600s, individual alchemists called the ...

All 88 internationally recognised constellations have European origins. But First Nations astronomy tells older, beautiful ...

Dürer's 1515 star charts were a game-changer for European courts, proving an obsession with astrology is nothing new ...

An astronomy graduate student in England was scouring more than 100 pages of data per day from a radio telescope when she noticed a strange, repeating signal that she dubbed "LGM" — short for "little ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured the light of a star that exploded when the universe was still in its cosmic youth ...

On November 17, 1966, the Leonid meteor shower produced one of the most remarkable meteor displays in recorded history. Observers in North America documented peak rates of thousands of meteors per ...

Exploring ancient ruins is like stepping into a time machine. Some of these ruins make you wonder how in the world they were ...

NASA’s Bennu samples have revealed an unexpected mix of sugars, sticky 'gum-like' material and ancient stardust. Scientists ...