What can today's scientists learn about astronomical phenomena from ancient texts?

A new study revisits ancient Chinese records to explore whether a comet could explain the Star of Bethlehem described in ...

Peru's Ministry of Culture has confirmed a groundbreaking discovery that rewrites the history of ancient astronomy in the Americas. Archaeologists working at the Chankillo Archaeoastronomical Complex ...

Long before modern observatories and spacecraft, court scribes in ancient China were quietly building one of humanity’s first ...

SETI’s ‘Noah’s Ark’ – a space historian explores how the advent of radio astronomy led to the USSR’s search for extraterrestrial life ...

An astronomy graduate student in England was scouring more than 100 pages of data per day from a radio telescope when she noticed a strange, repeating signal that she dubbed "LGM" — short for "little ...

After attending a friend’s wedding in Jaipur recently, we decided to explore the city. Jaipur, India’s first planned city, ...

All 88 internationally recognised constellations have European origins. But First Nations astronomy tells older, beautiful ...

A NASA planetary scientist has proposed what may be the first scientifically sound explanation for the mysterious Star of Bethlehem that guided the three wise men to the infant Jesus over two ...

Space astronomy is under threat from ‘megaconstellations’ of satellites, scientists warn - Some satellites will soon have 96% ...

In this episode, Astronomy magazine Editor Emeritus Dave Eicher invites you to head out late in the evening of December 9 and ...

Exploring ancient ruins is like stepping into a time machine. Some of these ruins make you wonder how in the world they were ...