This week’s news that archaeologists have discovered the long-lost city of Valeriana highlights one major part of Maya society: astronomical observatories. More than 6,000 structures unveiled ...

Using advanced scanning technology, researchers have located a major Maya site in the thick jungle of Mexico’s Yucatán ...

What is known of pre-Hispanic Maya religion stems from heterogeneous sources (the primary ones being of Maya origin): Traditional Maya religion, though also representing a belief system, is often ...

Written by the former chief historian of NASA, the book examines the evolution of our cosmic understanding—from early civilizations to the present day ...

Our solar system consists of the planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, as well as countless asteroids and comets, that are gravitationally bound to the Sun.

When we think of exoplanets that may be able to support life, we home in on the habitable zone. A habitable zone is a region around a star where planets receive enough stellar energy to have ...

A sprawling Maya city with palaces and pyramids ... 900 A.D., when they made breakthroughs in astronomy, hieroglyphic writings and the calendar system. Arguably the most advanced civilization ...

Using lidar technology, Tulane University researchers have uncovered thousands of unexplored Maya structures, including a large city with pyramids ... The team used lidar, a laser-based detection ...