Long before modern observatories and spacecraft, court scribes in ancient China were quietly building one of humanity’s first ...

A NASA planetary scientist has proposed what may be the first scientifically sound explanation for the mysterious Star of Bethlehem that guided the three wise men to the infant Jesus over two ...

A large mass of granite, located beneath the Compton and Belkovich craters on the Moon, has been slowly emitting heat for ...

India is actively pursuing a decolonisation agenda, moving beyond English's historical dominance. This initiative, championed ...

Dürer's 1515 star charts were a game-changer for European courts, proving an obsession with astrology is nothing new ...

BASED on findings published in Astronomy & Astrophysics in December and further reported by Keith Cooper for Space.com, ...

Astronomers detected a powerful cosmic flash from a star that exploded when the universe was just 5% of its current age, 13 ...

The flash was spotted on March 14 by a French-Chinese space telescope called SVOM, which launched last year on a mission to track gamma-ray bursts, the brightest and most powerful explosions in the ...

When the 3 rd -century Christian theologian Origen of Alexandria attempted to account for the unusual movements of the Star ...

Mohan Bhagwat’s recent remarks in Lucknow have once again revived an old and persistent question: Why are Hindu nationalist ...

The chance rediscovery of the ancient Chinese Sanxingdui civilization is legendary in and of itself. In 1929, an unsuspecting ...

An odd star brightened for more than 70 days in 5 B.C.E., according to a Chinese text. The object may have been a comet that ...