More than 2,000 years ago, Greek artisans built a compact machine of interlocking gears that could track the heavens with a ...

In the year 1181, a mysterious celestial event lit up the skies, capturing the attention of astronomers and poets alike. A supernova, recorded in ancient texts, may have left a lasting imprint on the ...

SKYWATCH: Stars’ positions were once found by calculating an offset from the closest epoch, a somewhat tedious exercise in ...

Researchers have resolved the 709 BC oldest solar eclipse mystery by reanalyzing ancient Chinese records and modern ...

Inverclyde astronomical expert and Tele columnist Stephen McAllister takes us on a guided tour of the spectacular .

All 88 internationally recognised constellations have European origins. But First Nations astronomy tells older, beautiful ...

A new study reveals that the Pleiades is the core of a once-much-larger cluster, many of whose members have scattered to the far corners of the sky.

During the 1240s, Richard Fishacre, a Dominican friar at Oxford University, used his knowledge of light and color to show ...

Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh): In those vernal seasons of the year when the air is calm and pleasant, it was an injury and ...

In this series of unique timepieces, the very best of watchmaking and artistic savoir-faire reign supreme.

Astronomers have detected the first-ever "radio signal" coming from the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, right as it passed the halfway mark on its oneway trip through the solar system. And while this may ...

Two millenniums before blastoff, astronomy belonged as much to the realms of art, philosophy and religion as it did to what ...