People often think about archaeology happening deep in jungles or inside ancient pyramids. However, a team of astronomers has ...

A new trail in this southern Arizona city plots the most visitor-friendly astronomy stops—and there are plenty to choose from ...

Yellowstone volcanism has produced some of the youngest rocks in North America. This same region also features some of the ...

This story was written with AI assistance from Who is? The National Maritime Museum (NMM) has launched a redevelopment tender ...

Researchers mapped a far-infrared landscape brimming with nearly 2,000 galaxies. There may be "hidden galaxies" lurking just ...

The Yellowstone region's Beartooth Mountains feature some of the most ancient rocks in North America — as old as 3.96 billion ...

The SMITHSONIAN ASTROPHYSICAL OBSERVATORY is a part of the Smithsonian Institution which, in conjunction with the Harvard ...

thereby establishing the Mudumal Megalithic Menhirs site as an ancient observatory. Apart from the main cluster of tall menhirs, there is a notable squarish, vertically planted stone. This stone ...

Lake Salda, in southwestern Turkey, bears a close resemblance to Mars' Jezero crater, which is currently being sampled by ...

This first light, as it's called, shows that all of the spacecraft's systems are working just as expected. "Based on the ...