astronomy

The Horoscopy of the Greeks, known as "Yavanajataka," was composed around 270 A.D.. This text had a phenomenal influence on later Indian astrology and astronomy; the Greek origin of this treatise is reflected by its title since Greeks are...

Japanese amateur astronomer Hideo Nishimura has discovered a new comet, which will be visible to the naked eye in September 2023. Visible comets are a rare and beautiful experience and have fascinated humans for millennia. This peculiar object had been...

Did the ancient Greeks look up at the night sky and ask "are we alone?" As it turns out, ancient Greek philosophers also asked this existential question. One such philosopher, Anaxagoras, proposed that alien life might exist on the...

The ancient Greek thinker Anaximander, who was born in the third year of the 42nd Olympiad, or 610 BC, and who lived until c. 546 BC, was a polymath, lending his prodigious talents to the realms of pre-Socratic Greek philosophy, geography,...

Ancient Greeks made countless astronomical discoveries, including Eratosthenes' calculation of the Earth's circumference and its shape.

Astronomers have recently witnessed a rare occurrence in the universe: a star devouring one of its own planets. Scientists think that this event provides us with a glimpse of what might happen to our planet Earth approximately 5 billion years...

Researchers have discovered fragments of the Star Catalog authored by the ancient Greek astronomer Hipparchus. It was composed in the second century BC and is the first known comprehensive star catalog in the Western world. The fragments of Hipparchus' Star...

A planetary ring system recently discovered by scientists calls into question the current theories of how ring systems are formed.

An asteroid, dubbed 2023 BU, is set to pass over the southern tip of South America just after midnight GMT on January 26, 2023. The space rock is about the size of a minibus and might approach as close...

More than 200 RR Lyrae stars—distant variable stars—have been found by astronomers in the Milky Way's stellar halo. Over a million light-years separate us from the furthest of these stars. This is roughly half the distance to our nearest...