There is an ancient Greek scientist who discovered the existence of polar day and polar night before people even knew the ...

Today in the history of astronomy, NASA announces evidence of material being consumed by the black hole at the center of our ...

Ancient Greek theories on the Milky Way galaxy ranged from mythology to science, with ideas from Democritus, Aristotle and ...

Despite the ancient Egyptians' advanced knowledge of astronomy, the role of the Milky Way in their culture remains a mystery.

The ancient book was published before Galileo was born, making it one of the first astronomy texts published in the English language.

Hidden in a museum’s archives for decades, an ancient astrolabe recently got a closer evaluation in which experts discovered that etched inscriptions on the device showed signs of scientific ...

Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have made the highest resolution image to date, ...

Claudius Ptolemy was a Greek mathematician, astronomer and geographer who lived in the Egyptian city of Alexandria while ...

An ancient and enigmatic stone circle in the Middle East may not be a prehistoric astronomical observatory after all, according to a new study of satellite images.