Two of the more than 6,000 Maya structures archaeologists recently discovered in Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula include an ...

New research offers groundbreaking insights into the formation and dynamical evolution of globular clusters, showing multiple formation events and distinct motions within these ancient star ...

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Easter Island is home to more than 900 giant Moai, with more still being discovered. The statues average about twice the ...

After centuries of effort by brilliant theorists, we’re left with a confusing mélange of unsatisfactory ...

Astronomers have spotted a black hole that dates back to just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang, which is gobbling up matter at an astonishing rate. According to their calculations, the black hole ...

A new study published in Astronomy & Astrophysics by researchers from the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF), ...

Black holes are fascinating objects. They're unimaginably dense: If Earth was (hypothetically) crushed into a black hole, it ...

Helped by laser technology, researchers reveal agricultural fields, sports courts, amphitheater, pyramids in dense area of ...

William Dalrymple gives us a near-complete idea of how central India was to everything that happened in the ancient world ...