Our solar system's famous "invader" might be as old as the Milky Way itself.

Cleostratus was a truly pioneering Greek astronomer who lived on the small Aegean island of Tenedos in the 6th century BC.

Arabs, Greeks, and Indians were among the earliest amateur astronomers who discovered many celestial phenomena. Scholars such ...

A group of undergraduate students stumbled into a cosmic time capsule—one of the oldest stars ever discovered—while combing ...

"Cosmic archaeologists" have discovered an iron-deficient second-generation star, which provides evidence of how ancient stars enriched their successors.

A record-setting pristine star provides a window into the dawn of stars and galaxies in the universe. This breakthrough was ...

NASA's Curiosity rover has found evidence of water on ancient Mars with "rippled textures" and "landslide debris" in the ...

The Antikythera computer captured the ancient Greek passion for mathematics, and especially geometry, and science.

Gavin Bent/Kaleb Jordan SNR G206.9+2.3 is all that remains of a star that exploded in Monoceros about 7,000 light-years away.

A joint archaeological mission by the University of Tübingen and the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities (MoTA) has documented the world's most extensive find of inscribed pottery sherds at ...

Anand Mahindra spotlights Kerala’s Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple, where architecture meets astronomy. Discover the equinox ...

The U.S. is the only country that has landed humans on the Moon. However, China is aiming to do so by 2030, and it just got a lot closer to achieving its goal.