Karen Wigen is Frances and Charles Field Professor in History at Stanford University. Speaking with Srijana Mitra Das at Times Evoke, she discusses th ...

Imagine digging into a quiet village field and finding signs of a whole city that existed more than 2,000 years ago. That’s what happened in Keeladi — a small village near Madurai that is now ...

Astronomers have identified 3I/ATLAS, an ancient, ice-rich interstellar comet potentially older than our solar system.

The Astronomical Society is bringing the night sky down to Earth with the Cosmic Carnival on Saturday, Nov. 1. "It's the celebration of science and astronomy," Lynne Olson, The Astronomical Society ...

New research reveals how powerful coronal mass ejections may have been essential to the rise of life on planet Earth.

Without the scholars of the Islamic Golden Age, who translated Ancient Greek, it is likely that ancient knowledge would now ...

From the ancient Assyrians and Greeks, to the greatest minds of the Renaissance, and up to the billionaire space explorers of ...

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

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 ...

More than a thousand years ago, astronomers from the Maya civilization developed one of the most sophisticated time-keeping ...

The chemical signatures we're observing may reflect both the comet's ancient origins and its long journey through ...