A selection of active galaxies with supermassive black holes at their centers, illustrating the variety of shapes that can result from the activity of black holes and their interaction with the ...

Beneath Guatemala’s jungle, archaeologists uncovered a Maya observatory that reveals just how carefully this civilization watched the sky.

For many years the prevailing debate about the Maya centred upon why their civilisation collapsed. Now, many scholars are asking: how did the Maya survive?

A sweeping new ALMA image has peeled back the veil on the Milky Way’s core, exposing a dense network of cold gas filaments ...

Astronomers have used the LOFAR telescope array to create the largest radio survey of the cosmos, revealing 13.7 million cosmic scenes, including supermassive black holes, merging galaxies, and ...

Astronomers have captured the central region of our Milky Way in a striking new image, unveiling a complex network of filaments of cosmic gas in unprecedented detail. Obtained with the Atacama Large ...

Explore the mystery of Chichén Itzá . This is the place where ancient design creates bird-like echo sounds and a moving snake shadow during equinox. A powerful example of Mayan engineering, astronomy, ...

ALMA’s most ambitious galactic survey yet exposes a wild, filament-filled stellar nursery at the very heart of the Milky Way. Astronomers have produced a remarkable new view of the center of the Milky ...

The first lunar eclipse of 2026 will be a total lunar eclipse, also called a Blood Moon, on March 3. Falling close to Holi in ...

National Geographic archaeologist George E. Stuart reported in 1975 on the scientists who sought to decode the ancient language—and the looters who stood in their way.