Claudius Ptolemy was a Greek mathematician, astronomer and geographer who lived in the Egyptian city of Alexandria while ...

Despite the ancient Egyptians' advanced knowledge of astronomy, the role of the Milky Way in their culture remains a mystery.

The ancient book was published before Galileo was born, making it one of the first astronomy texts published in the English language.

Krupp, an expert on ancient astronomy and the author of " Echoes of the Ancient Skies: The Astronomy of Lost Civilizations " (Dover, 2003), noted that the 1998 paper that proposed astronomical ...

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India will celebrate the second National Space Day on August 23, 2025, a date that marks a turning point in the nation’s ...

Humanity's ability to track and monitor celestial cycles stretches back into prehistory, long before the invention of telescopes and astrolabes.

Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, the technical journal of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP), has been published regularly since 1889, as part of the ASP’s mission ...

The Ancient City Astronomy Club is hosting an event called Night Under the Stars from 8 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Friday at the St.

Its earliest iteration as a holiday was Imbolc, an ancient Celtic and contemporary pagan festival welcoming spring and honoring the goddess Brigid (also known as St. Brigid, whose Christian feast ...

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