Georgios Gemistos Pletho, the last great Greek Platonist, inspired the Renaissance with his radical vision for Hellenism and ...

And speaking of the break of dawn, that happens nowadays at around 5:15 a.m. local daylight time. And that's the time for ...

STARKVILLE, Miss.—Students in Mississippi State’s Judy and Bobby Shackouls Honors College will present the tragedy “Thyestes” ...

With 274 confirmed moons as of March of 2025, Saturn is the solar system planet with the most natural satellites. By 1789, ...

For millennia, humanity has looked up in awe at the night sky, finding in its silent beauty a profound source of inspiration. This celestial canvas has fueled our greatest achievements in poetry, ...

The earliest astronomers were careful observers of patterns.

Many of us will know Uranus as the seventh planet from the sun or as the butt of a cosmic joke. This incredibly cold, ice giant of a planet is not only around four times the size of Earth but also ...

Aristotle had one of the first important scientific theories and was the one who found out the world is round.

If anyone thinks that the names given to the various places on the Moon—from craters to mountains, including ranges, seas and ...

An international team of archaeologists has used, for the first time, subsurface geophysical survey technology to unravel the mysteries hidden in the ground around an ancient Greek tower on the ...

Have you ever looked up at the Kintyre night sky and wondered if a particularly bright star you noticed was actually a planet ...

An international team led by the University of Geneva (UNIGE), including scientists from the National Center of Competence in ...