Discover the Imago Mundi, the 2,600-year-old Babylonian world map from Sippar, Iraq. Learn how it blends geography, myth & ...

A newly spotlighted artifact from ancient Mesopotamia is offering a rare window into how one of the world’s earliest ...

Chinese and Sumerian civilizations - though unlike these, researchers say it developed in complete isolation. Sign up here. Aspero, the area in the Caral site where the tomb was found, was ...

Universe may revolve once every 500 billion years — and that could solve a problem that threatened to break cosmology News By Elana Spivack published 19 April 2025 ...

About half of the non-dark matter in the universe cannot be accounted for by stars and galaxies alone. Now, scientists say previously undetected clouds of hydrogen gas could finally reveal it.

A new study suggests the universe may rotate -- just extremely slowly. The finding could help solve one of astronomy's biggest puzzles. A new study in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical ...

Then they compared those images with ultra-precise measurements of the CMB taken by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) in Chile. Ultimately, the scientists found that the gas spread out more ...

Calendars may seem ordinary today, but in ancient Egypt and Sumer, they were revolutionary tools. Around 4000 BCE, Egyptians developed a solar calendar with 12 months of 30 days and five extra ...

A pioneer in the field of cosmology — the science that probes the origin, development and structure of the universe — Ostriker is responsible for groundbreaking discoveries, beginning in the early ...

More information: Kosuke Jamie Kanehisa et al, Andromeda's asymmetric satellite system as a challenge to cold dark matter cosmology, Nature Astronomy (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41550-025-02480-3 ...