High in the Bricklieve Mountains of County Sligo lie 14 ancient tombs aligned to the stars. Built over 5,400 years ago, the ...

An analysis of feldspar crystals within the oldest magmatic rocks in Australia has provided a unique insight into Earth's ...

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 ...

For Halloween, our space photo of the day shows a brilliant orange sunset over Kitt Peak Observatory in Arizona.

The comet could be older than our solar system. The comet is also distinct because nickel vapor was detected in the gas ...

New research reveals how Mayan astronomers built a precise eclipse prediction system using complex lunar mathematics.

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 ...

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

The ‘Star of Bethlehem’ described in the Gospel of Matthew remains one of astronomy’s greatest mysteries. Matthew 2:1-12 explains how magi or astrologer-priests observed the rising of a certain star ...

A telltale hint was on the bee’s knees. An analysis of 127 fossil flowers, flower buds and bees from central Germany revealed pollen particles that precisely matched ancient flowers to their ...