A recently discovered observatory may be the oldest in the Americas, challenging everything we knew about ancient astronomy.
The H.R. MacMillan Space Centre in Vancouver, B.C., is hosting a presentation about Indigenous astronomy titled "Salish Skies ...
When winter sets in, and daylight is gone well before dinner, it’s hard not to notice how long the nights stretch on. For me, ...
"We did the simplest thing that could be done — we just mapped them and pieced them together." ...
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Stars lost to history

Star maps and charts are a mainstay of both amateur and professional sky observers. Whether it's on a simple seasonal map or ...
This means that the lunar regolith could still hold a very long-term record of Earth's atmospheric history, which in turn ...
It seems the AI hype has turned into an AI bubble. There have been many bubbles before, from the Tulip mania of the 17th ...
Dürer's 1515 star charts were a game-changer for European courts, proving an obsession with astrology is nothing new ...
The moon's surface may be more than just a dusty, barren landscape. Over billions of years, tiny particles from Earth's ...
Originally published in England under the title The Fontana history of astronomy and cosmology. Statement of responsibility from jacket. Prehistory -- Ancient Egypt -- Mesopotamia -- The Greek and ...
A NASA planetary scientist has proposed what may be the first scientifically sound explanation for the mysterious Star of Bethlehem that guided the three wise men to the infant Jesus over two ...
BASED on findings published in Astronomy & Astrophysics in December and further reported by Keith Cooper for Space.com, ...