"Some of our ancestors were very skilled observers." A team of international researchers say they've uncovered new data on ...

A new study revisits ancient Chinese records to explore whether a comet could explain the Star of Bethlehem described in ...

Peru's Ministry of Culture has confirmed a groundbreaking discovery that rewrites the history of ancient astronomy in the Americas. Archaeologists working at the Chankillo Archaeoastronomical Complex ...

For more than a century, astronomers debated the possibility of martian canali (channels) which Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli claimed to see on the Red Planet in 1877. Mistranslated into ...

An astronomy graduate student in England was scouring more than 100 pages of data per day from a radio telescope when she noticed a strange, repeating signal that she dubbed "LGM" — short for "little ...

All 88 internationally recognised constellations have European origins. But First Nations astronomy tells older, beautiful ...

Dürer's 1515 star charts were a game-changer for European courts, proving an obsession with astrology is nothing new ...

“Megaconstellations” of vast numbers of satellites could threaten space-based astronomy, scientists have warned.

After attending a friend’s wedding in Jaipur recently, we decided to explore the city. Jaipur, India’s first planned city, ...

Long before modern observatories and spacecraft, court scribes in ancient China were quietly building one of humanity’s first ...

Exploring ancient ruins is like stepping into a time machine. Some of these ruins make you wonder how in the world they were ...

The asteroid Bennu continues to provide new clues to scientists' biggest questions about the formation of the early solar ...