SLAC researchers used X-ray beams and the particle accelerator to recover the work of an ancient astronomer, who made the earliest known attempt to log the stars.

Using powerful X-rays, researchers at SLAC are trying to recover erased traces of a 2,000-year-old star catalog that could ...

He said India's achievements in mathematics, astronomy, and medicine were studied in Iran and people of Iran have always ...

Long before Western astrology, the Chinese zodiac helped organize years, beliefs, and social life. Here’s how the system of 12 animals evolved over the centuries.

Ileana Chinnici, an astronomer affiliated with the Vatican Observatory, is one of the editors of the new book Astronomical Observatories and Chronometry, 18th-20th Century: Studies in Honour of Paolo ...

"It is exciting to think that Little Red Dots may represent the first direct observational evidence of the birth of the most ...

An ancient Mayan manuscript known as the Dresden Codex has been shown to contain a remarkably accurate method for predicting ...

August 2026 – 6 days from £2,999 This tour is built around a single, extraordinary moment, the total solar eclipse. A tour ...

Astronomers have discovered a vast, dense cluster of massive galaxies just 1 billion years after the Big Bang, each forming ...

Astronomers believe this barred spiral galaxy could be the oldest example of its kind ever observed. Research led by Daniel ...

Unearthed in Germany, the Nebra Sky Disc may be the world’s oldest cosmic map, revealing how ancient Europeans read the stars ...

Mars may have once possessed an ocean at least as large as Earth's Arctic Ocean, a new study suggests. Previous research ...