These days, we would call them proprietary blends. But in the late 1500s and early 1600s, individual alchemists called the ...

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

Archaeologists have uncovered the submerged ruins of a medieval Silk Road city beneath Lake Issyk-Kul. Located in ...

David Musgrove reports on new research that casts light on the appearance of the comet in the 11th century, and its depiction in the Bayeux Tapestry ...

There are 15 mysterious stone altars in Hogwarts Legacy that later reveal themselves to be Astronomy Tables. While you may come across them in the Highlands very early in your quest, you cannot use ...

Explore the controversial Phantom Time Hypothesis, which claims we are actually living in the year 1726 and questions the ...

New findings have revealed that a supernova struck Earth 10 million years ago, and the evidence lies at the bottom of the sea ...

While scholars like Copernicus undoubtedly learned from the Islamic world, this was a two-way street, stressed Morrison.

During the 1240s, Richard Fishacre, a Dominican friar at Oxford University, used his knowledge of light and color to show that the stars and planets are made of the same elements found here on Earth.

Astronomical understanding, accurate calendars and knowledge of exact geographic latitudes and longitudes were essential for all Islamic cities and towns. This body of astronomical knowledge was not ...

An astronomical anomaly that was first observed and recorded more than eight centuries ago is about to make a return visit to Earth’s night skies. Sometime between now and September, a double star ...