Researchers in Peru uncovered an ancient structure older than the Chankillo Solar Observatory, reshaping views on early ...

A scorpion-shaped geoglyph mound in Mexico reveals ancient solar alignments used to synchronize agriculture and rituals.

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 ...

LOS ANGELES — Scientists have found the most distant space object yet observed, a galaxy born just 500 million years after the Big Bang. The record-breaking discovery, reported Wednesday in the ...

In the beginning, galaxies were lacking in chemical and metal abundances, according to a team of astronomers that recently used a telescope to study the ancient universe. Though the galaxies in the ...

Archaeologists often seek to understand ancient cultures by studying images left behind on rock faces. While these images ...

When do galaxies stop forming new stars? This is what a study published today in Nature hopes to address as a team of researchers led by the Kavli Institute for Cosmology used NASA’s James Webb Space ...