The direction, distance and motion of the comet through the sky during its closest approach could have made it seem like it ...
Across the globe, a race is under way to crack some of the last mysterious forms of writing that have never been translated.
These out-of-place artifacts, or OOPArts, are surprising for their place and time — but there's an explanation behind each ...
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Stars lost to history

Star maps and charts are a mainstay of both amateur and professional sky observers. Whether it's on a simple seasonal map or ...
NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team has released detailed plans for a major survey that will reveal our home galaxy ...
"A bit like dinosaurs on Earth — they were enormous and primitive. And they had short lives, living for just a quarter of a ...
Nearby what was thought to be the oldest known astrological observatory in the Western Hemisphere, archaeologists discovered one even older. The site in the Casma Valley of Peru could be centuries ...
Dürer's 1515 star charts were a game-changer for European courts, proving an obsession with astrology is nothing new ...
The Last Jedi finally revealed the first Jedi Temple on Ahch-To, but it left so many more questions than answers. Hidden deep ...
Turkey was once full of Greek cities which were the cradle of ancient Greek scientific and philosophical thought.
Harvard's Avi Loeb suggests 3I/ATLAS is alien tech due to its anomalous jets. Shockingly, a 300 BC Chinese star map may have ...
In a remote stretch of canyon country along the US-Mexico border, painted walls are rewriting what we think we know about the ...