The transition from mythology to rational, scientific thought in Ancient Greece set the foundation for Western civilization.

For practically as long as NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has circled Earth, astronomers have wanted to use it to see a comet ...

"Discoveries like this are cosmic archaeology, uncovering rare stellar fossils that preserve the fingerprints of the universe ...

The Sun may have been part of a small group of stars that migrated from the core of our galaxy between 4 and 6 billion years ago.

Discovered in the Pictor II dwarf galaxy, star PicII-503 has an extreme deficiency in iron—less than 1/40,000th of the sun. This signature makes it the clearest example of a star within a primordial ...

Astronomers have discovered one of the most chemically primitive stars ever identified — an ancient stellar relic that preserves the chemical imprint ...

Still in its original galaxy, a rare holdout from the second generation of stars sheds new light on the origins of the elements—and how massive supernovae reshaped the cosmos ...

An Egyptian-German archaeological mission has unearthed a staggering 13,000 inscribed pottery fragments, known as ostraca, at the ancient site of Athribis in Sohag, Upper Egypt, including over 130 ...

A solar eclipse recorded in ancient China more than 2,700 years ago is helping scientists refine measurements of Earth’s rotation and investigate the Sun’s past behavior.

Credit: NASA/ESA Spring is almost here, which means it's galaxy season for amateur astronomers! Grab your telescope and join ...

Australian traveller named Liam Richards took the internet by storm when he raised the question of telescope invention. In the video, he said, "So our history books have lied to us again. The ...

The ancient tradition of watching the night sky to guide farming resumed on Thursday in Maldrogungkar county in Lhasa, Xizang autonomous region, as locals gathered at the Dakpo Observatory to mark the ...