Astronomers from the University of Hawaii’s Institute for Astronomy have identified a new category of events that they found ...

When the biggest geomagnetic storm in 20 years hit Earth in May 2024, photographer Kavan Chay was in Tumbledown Bay, New ...

Georgios Gemistos Pletho, the last great Greek Platonist, inspired the Renaissance with his radical vision for Hellenism and ...

Nathan Hale was destined to fail. Sent by General George Washington to gather intelligence on British forces in New York, the 21-year-old patriot lacked the training and cunning necessary to be a ...

An exhibition at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art charts the development of astronomical knowledge across continents before and after the Scientific Revolution.

And speaking of the break of dawn, that happens nowadays at around 5:15 a.m. local daylight time. And that's the time for ...

Astronomers are pulling back the curtain on two of the universe’s biggest mysteries: how planets are born and how invisible ...

From plagiarism to planetary corrections, we take a look at Copernicus and the introduction of heliocentricity.

Archaeological findings and architectural elements provide evidence that a sun worship cult existed at Delphi.

Have you ever wondered when photography was invented? This man is widely credited for doing it nearly 200 years ago ...

“The history of the many attempts to reach the North Pole,” Norwegian author and adventurer Erling Kagge writes, “is also the history of how illusions of a frozen wasteland can lure people to their ...

This verse refers to Jerusalem, destroyed by the Romans in 70 CE, and only reclaimed 18 1/2 centuries later as the State of Israel’s capital, during the era of the defeat of of the Nazis, the ...