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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

For as long as humans have walked the Earth, the great endless sky and the countless stars that fill it have left us in a ...

The ancient Egyptian goddess of the sky: How a researcher used modern astronomy to explore her link with the Milky Way by Or Graur, The Conversation ...

An interest in astronomy may strike early in life or later. Regardless of what lit the fire of that interest, you need ...

Every December, on the shortest day of the year as fall officially gives way to winter, a feat of ancient astronomy and mathematics is on display in the Southwestern Ohio community of Oregonia.

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.