A new study revisits ancient Chinese records to explore whether a comet could explain the Star of Bethlehem described in ...

"Some of our ancestors were very skilled observers." A team of international researchers say they've uncovered new data on ...

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

Researchers reveal 2,700-year-old records from ancient China that offer new insights into Earth's rotation and solar activity, confirming early descriptions of a solar eclipse and the Sun's corona.

Learn more about two of the earliest reports of a total solar eclipse and corona, which were recorded in China, and solve several mysteries about our ancient Solar System.

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 ...

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 ...

Nalanda’s Dharmaganja was a vast ancient library complex housing diverse manuscripts. Its destruction remains one of the ...

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 ...