There are several ancient monuments proving that our predecessors possessed knowledge of astronomy and used it for practical purposes.

Synchrotron radiation has revealed a star map made by the ancient astronomer Hipparchus that was thought to be lost to time ...

"JADES-ID1 is giving us new evidence that the universe was in a huge hurry to grow up." ...

Researchers are using X-rays to discover invisible markings left on ancient parchment containing information from the Greek ...

Ancient Greek astronomers made important observations regarding the night sky long before the first ...

X-ray scans recover an ancient Greek star map beneath a medieval text, revealing Aquarius clues and Hipparchus-linked ...

We show how this "cosmic clock" uncovers the evolution of rivers, coasts and habitats.

History is often taught as if astronomy followed a single European arc—from Greek philosophy to Renaissance telescopes to modern science—while Africa appears absent or myth-bound. This series, “When ...

Some discoveries make you stop and stare. The Nebra Sky Disc is one of them. Unearthed in Germany, this 3,800-year-old bronze ...

As gas falls toward a black hole, it heats up and shines. If the glow becomes intense enough, it can push incoming gas away. Astronomers call this balancing point the Eddington limit, and for decades ...

Astronomers have discovered a vast, dense cluster of massive galaxies just 1 billion years after the Big Bang, each forming stars at an intense rate from collapsing clouds of dust. Reported in ...

A little more than a thousand years ago, monks at Saint Catherine’s Monastery in Egypt’s Sinai desert removed Western ...