New research reveals how Mayan astronomers built a precise eclipse prediction system using complex lunar mathematics.

More than a thousand years ago, astronomers from the Maya civilization developed one of the most sophisticated time-keeping ...

The Maya civilization possessed the remarkable ability to forecast solar eclipses with stunning accuracy for over 700 years, using nothing more than careful observation and mathematical genius. A ...

A 13th-century manuscript sits under glass, its bark-paper pages filled with vivid glyphs and cryptic figures, in a quiet ...

Researchers decode the Dresden Codex eclipse table, revealing how Mayan daykeepers predicted solar eclipses before modern ...

On July 11, 1999, the Yucatan Peninsula was plunged into darkness as the moon passed momentarily between the sun and the ...

The 405-month eclipse table had emerged from a lunar calendar in which the 260-day divinatory calendar commensurated the lunar cycle,” the authors wrote.

The eclipses are here! The lunar and solar eclipse 2025 season is upon us, a celestial phenomenon that occurs every six months to dazzle the sky and mess up our lives. Eclipses are forces of the ...

This skywatching quiz will test your knowledge of how eclipses, when to see them, and what makes each one so spectacular.

A solar eclipse is coming soon, but not as early as Saturday, Aug. 2, as the internet and social media might lead you to believe. The viral claims of a "once in a century solar eclipse" have spread ...

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