When the biggest geomagnetic storm in 20 years hit Earth in May 2024, photographer Kavan Chay was in Tumbledown Bay, New ...

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

From plagiarism to planetary corrections, we take a look at Copernicus and the introduction of heliocentricity.

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 ...

An exhibition at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art charts the development of astronomical knowledge across continents before and after the Scientific Revolution.

Archaeologists excavating a section of the well-known Konya's Karahöyük site have discovered three artifacts from different ...

Over millennia, our view of the stars has shifted, because of Earth’s wobble. It may be time to rethink your sign.

Erling Kagge, who himself was one of the first to reach the pole unassisted, details the personal motivations and public ...

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

NASA explores the Earth-like planet TRAPPIST-1e using the James Webb Space Telescope to search for signs of alien life.

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

This verse refers to Jerusalem, destroyed by the Romans in 70 CE, and only reclaimed 18 1/2 centuries later as the State of Israel’s capital, during the era of the defeat of of the Nazis, the ...