Peering into the past, we find that our ancestors held a surprisingly advanced understanding of the stars and constellations. Their knowledge, as revealed in ancient texts, often rivals our modern ...

If you explore the night sky it won't be long before you realize there is a lot of dust and gas up there. The interstellar dust between the stars accounts for 1% of the mass of the interstellar medium ...

Once you know how to use a star map, finding your way around the night sky is easy. Credit: Creators.com illustration I’ve been finding my way around the night sky with a star map for more than six ...

In a monastery library on the Sinai Peninsula, a devotional handbook by the monk John Climacus sat quietly for centuries while a far older scientific treasure hid beneath its ink. Medieval scribes had ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Researchers using a synchrotron at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have been able to recover pieces of the Hipparchus star catalog that had ...

Scientists are using X-ray imaging to recover erased astronomical text, hoping to find fragments from Hipparchus’s star catalogue. Courtesy Jacqueline Ramseyer Orrell/SLAC National Accelerator ...

Hansen’s intent was to capture a single event in time, with the star map acting as an astronomical reference point that ...