The second half of the 19th century was a particularly interesting time to imagine Mars. This was a period during which the ...

A lot has happened in astronomy and spaceflight over the last 25 years. To celebrate our anniversary, Space.com is running a weeklong special report on some of our favorite topics of space ...

Using AI, historians track how astronomy ideas spread in the 16th century. Novel analysis of 76,000 textbook pages shows how widespread astronomy education in Europe was.

The second half of the 19th century was a particularly interesting time to imagine Mars. This was a period during which the red planet seemed to be ready to give up some of its mystery .

In today’s theatre industry, you don’t have to look far to find queer representation. Although the theatre has long been seen as an accepting place for LGBTQ+ people, in the 19th century ...

An asteroid has been named after 19th century astronomer Annie Walker, Cambridge’s first professional female astronomer.

In the late 19th century, a Scottish immigrant named Williamina Fleming went from working as a maid to a career as a pioneering astronomer. The claim that Fleming went from being a maid to ...

Back in the 19th Century, Your Election Ballot Could Double as a Work of Art During and after the Civil War, inventive illustrations allowed Democrats and Republicans to turn American ballots into ...

The 19th century is often referred to as the “dark century” for child labor exploitation. In factories, children worked 13 to 15 hours a day, performing tasks that no machine could replicate.

But by the end of the 19th century, the industrial social-economic order that tariffs helped foster were quite different from what earlier protectionists had promised.