An ancient book on astronomy from the 1500s sold for more than £10,000 ($12,200), as a "private international buyer" triumphed over intense competition at a U.K. auction. The Castle of Knowledge by ...

Hidden in a museum’s archives for decades, an ancient astrolabe recently got a closer evaluation in which experts discovered that etched inscriptions on the device showed signs of scientific exchange ...

Aristos is a Newsweek science and health reporter with the London, U.K., bureau. He is particularly focused on archaeology and paleontology, although he has covered a wide variety of topics ranging ...

There is an ancient Greek scientist who discovered the existence of polar day and polar night before people even knew the ...

The discovery that water existed in liquid form a billion years after the parent body of Ryugu formed came from the study of ...

A mysterious population of glowing red dots scattered across the early universe has led astronomers to a startling new theory: these objects may not be ancient galaxies, but instead an entirely new ...

A new study in Nature has revealed unexpected evidence that the asteroid Ryugu once had liquid water flowing through it. The results come from tiny rock samples collected by JAXA’s Hayabusa2 ...

A new analysis of the 6,000-year-old stone circle known as Rujm el-Hiri (also Gilgal Refaim) in Golan Heights suggests that it was not built to observe the heavens. When you purchase through links on ...

A near-total solar eclipse occurred on June 15, 763 BCE, over northern Assyria. The eclipse was recorded in Nineveh, the Assyrian capital, within the Eponym Canon, a chronicle inscribed on clay ...

What did our ancestors think when they looked up at the night sky? All cultures ascribed special meaning to the sun and the moon, but what about the pearly band of light and shadow we call the Milky ...

The Red Planet’s mantle is giving scientists clues to its geological history.

American Indians some 2,000 years ago constructed this earthen wall in Oregonia to align perfectly with the sun on the shortest day of the year. Every December, on the shortest day of the year as fall ...