Japanese company iSpace's Hakuto-R lander captured amazing views of the the Earth during a solar eclipse and more during its ...

The James Webb Space Telescope's Near Infrared Camera (NIRCam) and Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) captures stunning views of ...

A mysterious tunnel discovered in Germany’s Neolithic site challenges archaeologists to unlock the secrets of an ancient underground passage ...

Formal education in Africa begins early and decisively in Ancient Egypt. By the third millennium BCE, Egypt maintained ...

Synchrotron radiation has revealed a star map made by the ancient astronomer Hipparchus that was thought to be lost to time ...

The comet the world knows as Halley’s Comet may owe its “first to spot the pattern” credit to someone far earlier than Edmond Halley: an 11th-century English monk. New interdisciplinary research ...

Between roughly 700 and 1500 CE, West Africa controlled one of the world’s most important commercial systems: the trans-Saharan trade. Empires such as the Ghana Empire, the Mali Empire, and the ...

X-ray scans recover an ancient Greek star map beneath a medieval text, revealing Aquarius clues and Hipparchus-linked ...

Astronomers suggest the honor should go to an 11th century monk known for a disastrous flying attempt.

The British astronomer and mathematician Edmond Halley was not, after all, the first to understand the cycle of the comet ...

August 2026 – 6 days from £2,999 This tour is built around a single, extraordinary moment, the total solar eclipse. A tour ...

Claudius Ptolemy, a Greco-Roman astronomer, found solace in the stars. He believed human life was brief but observing the cosmos offered a way to rise above mortality. His work, The Almagest, ...