Event will showcase ancient solar alignments and sky watching June 18 and 20 Each year around the summer solstice, visitors ...

Hosted by the museum and its longtime community partners, the event offers a window into the astronomy-based traditions ... exploring solar alignments at Chaco Canyon and sites like Salmon Ruins.

From the dry desert ecosystem at Chaco Canyon to the pinyon-juniper woodlands at Mesa Verde ... You’ll have the opportunity to look through high-powered telescopes and discover how astronomy played a ...

When is the summer solstice? On June 20, 2025, the sun will reach its most northerly point in the sky, marking the start of ...

National parks are offering a growing number of nighttime programs for visitors looking for novel experiences or those eager ...

In 2023, when the Department of the Interior finalized Public Land Order 7923, withdrawing federal lands surrounding Chaco Canyon from future federal mineral leasing for 20 years, many of us ...

Researchers at the University of Arizona have found a new source for the beams used to build the ancient pueblos of Chaco Canyon, using tree-ring samples that date to the founding of the science ...

The results show they have ties to Chaco Canyon going back hundreds of years. “It’s what we always talked about, what was passed on through generations – through our fore-fathers and our ...

The Pueblo of Acoma is raising the alarm about potential revisions to a 2023 agreement to withdraw land around Chaco Canyon from future oil and gas development. An opinion piece pueblo leaders ...

Only one matrilineal society has been confirmed through genomic evidence: an elite lineage at Chaco Canyon in North America. Tentative indications of matriliny have also been proposed in Iron Age ...