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

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

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

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

More than two millennia ago, Greek craftsmen built a bronze machine that could track the heavens with a precision that would ...

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

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

During the 1240s, Richard Fishacre, a Dominican friar at Oxford University, used his knowledge of light and color to show that the stars and planets are made of the same elements found here on Earth.

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.

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 ...

When the Sun disappeared and the skies of the ancient world darkened without warning, many civilizations throughout time have turned to myth for answers. However, in the jungles of Mesoamerica, Mayan ...

An asteroid named 2025 PN7 will be sharing the Earth's orbit until 2083. Earth will have a visitor within its orbit for the next several decades, according to astronomers. An asteroid named 2025 PN7 ...