Explore these vast roadways stretching across the world's continents, connecting towns and cities with plains, mountains, and ...

Sumerian civilization appears to have evolved in Southern Mesopotamia around 4000 BC, while some historians place it as far ...

Astrology, the belief that the positions and movements of celestial bodies can influence human lives and events on Earth, has ...

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Let's celebrate April first as "Healthy Skepticism Day", especially with fantastical astronomy stories and images online ...

Bring the Moon and planets into closer view, spot stunning star clusters and observe distant galaxies and nebulas with your own eyes — you can even photograph your subject with a smart telescope.

We're about the say goodbye to the long, dark winter nights as our days feel like the get a bit more light. Glimpses of spring have already appeared on the horizon. Daylight hours have increased ...

Unlike Elon Musk who claims that colonization of the Red Planet is feasible in the not-too-distant future, Krimigis argued that although an initial exploration of Mars by manned spacecraft is possible ...

These 4,000-year-old tablets, uncovered at the ancient Sumerian city of Girsu (modern-day Tello), reveal everything from the mundane to the monumental: barley rations, livestock transactions ...

This planet, five times larger than Earth, has extreme temperatures reaching 2,400°C and could contain significant quantities of diamonds. This discovery challenges our understanding of planetary ...

Early accounts of levers are found in ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt, where they were used to lift water vessels and construct massive structures like pyramids. The Greek mathematician Archimedes ...

The nearest single star to the sun, Barnard’s star, has a brood of planets all its own. The red dwarf star, about six light-years from Earth, hosts four close-in planets each about two to three ...