The Classic Maya period, from around 250-900 CE, is seen as something of a golden age for the civilization. During that time, ...

Hieroglyphs on the wall of a Maya building record calculations concerning the orbits of Earth, Mars and Venus, as well as the name of a mathematician who wrote the text around 1200 years ago ...

A sugar found in raspberries and sunless tanning products has turned up near the Milky Way’s center. The discovery marks the ...

Scientists have discovered erythrulose, a type of sugar also found in raspberries, in a gas cloud near the center of the ...

The space between stars just got a little sweeter. Astronomers have detected a type of sugar in space that’s also found in ...

Astronomers detected a type of sugar in space that’s also found in raspberries. The sugar, called erythrulose, was found in ...

Physics and astronomy students visited Great Basin Observatory to connect classroom research with hands-on experiences in ...

Erythrulose—a sugar found in raspberries—is also prevalent in a giant molecular cloud close to our galaxy’s core, scientists ...

According to a study published today in the journal Nature Astronomy, a team successfully pinpointed a type of sugar called ...

Open cluster M92 is a great object to study with binoculars or a telescope, near the center of the cross-shaped pattern of ...

This process weakens magnetic support, allowing the core to collapse and eventually form a protostar. Credit: Yurika Nakamura ...