The ancient Greeks measured time because human beings have felt the need to track the passage of their hours and days since ...

Researchers in Peru uncovered an ancient structure older than the Chankillo Solar Observatory, reshaping views on early ...

More than 2,000 years ago, Greek artisans built a compact machine of interlocking gears that could track the heavens with a ...

Fear. We 21st-century people certainly experience these emotions, but, as Gal writes, the historian Rob Boddice argues that ...

While scholars like Copernicus undoubtedly learned from the Islamic world, this was a two-way street, stressed Morrison.

Top selections by Nancy Lord and David James include poetry, works of fiction, adventure stories, a Pulitzer-winning memoir ...

During the 1240s, Richard Fishacre, a Dominican friar at Oxford University, used his knowledge of light and color to show that the stars and planets are made of the same elements found here on Earth.

Wall St. Insights The empire of Alexander the Great ruled from Egypt to India. The countries of that region still show some Greek influence in their art, architecture, languages, and other cultural ...

Though the exact length of a "stadia" is unknown, his measurement is thought to be accurate to within one percent of the ...

A Falcon 9 launched 140 payloads on its latest rideshare mission Nov. 28, ranging from European government spacecraft to a ...

The moon-sailing Argonaut is a lander concept from the European Space Agency (ESA), of which DLR is a part. ESA officials ...

A faculty member from Mississippi State University has discovered a new asteroid, a first for the Magnolia State.