Across history, ancient civilizations crafted prototypes for many of the modern mechanisms that have become integral to ...

Ancient Greek astronomers also used eclipse events to calculate distances between celestial objects. Many ancient cultures have long tied eclipses to other civilizational cataclysms.

Diagram shows the mass of dark matter haloes around quasars at the heart of ancient active galaxies. (Image credit: Arita et al. CC BY) The nature of dark matter is a pressing problem for science ...

The astronomers used NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to peer back in time, more than 13 billion years, to study the cosmic surroundings of five known ancient quasars.

Thanks to high-tech scanning, 2,000-year-old inscriptions on the Antikythera mechanism, an ancient Greek "computer," can be read more clearly than ever before, revealing more information about the ...

NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory was peering through eons and eons in September 2021 when it spotted a dramatic explosion, a gamma-ray burst that had gone off in the early universe.

Ancient Greek and Roman statues didn't originally look like they do now in museums. A new study says they didn't smell the same, either.

In ancient Greece and Rome, statues not only looked beautiful—they smelled good, too. That’s the conclusion of a new study published this month in the Oxford Journal of Archaeology .