For as long as humans have walked the Earth, the great endless sky and the countless stars that fill it have left us in a ...

This means that the lunar regolith could still hold a very long-term record of Earth's atmospheric history, which in turn ...

A team of astronomers from Northwestern University has managed to capture the direct image of an exoplanet orbiting a binary ...

During the talk, the planetarium director will cover the facility's opening in 1962 on the college's campus in northeast ...

Originally published in England under the title The Fontana history of astronomy and cosmology. Statement of responsibility from jacket. Prehistory -- Ancient Egypt -- Mesopotamia -- The Greek and ...

The Large and Small Magellanic Clouds are irregular dwarf galaxies and satellites of the Milky Way. The LMC is about 163,000 ...

What is the most realistic way we'll detect an alien civilization? If the history of science and astronomy is any guide, ...

The first full moon of the calendar year is January's wolf moon. Its name derives from the idea that wolves could be ...

While the 21st century has been bumpy, it has also ushered in monumental scientific and technological breakthroughs that have ...

Peru is often defined by the mystical ruins of Machu Picchu, but the country holds far more archaeological treasures than ...

These days, we would call them proprietary blends. But in the late 1500s and early 1600s, individual alchemists called the ...

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