The long lost star catalog of Hipparchus has been under our noses - or, more accurately, slightly above them - for more than 1,800 years. Sitting atop the broad shoulders of a seven-foot statue known ...

Atlas was one of the Titans in Greek mythology, son of Iapetus and the Oceanid Clymene, and brother of Prometheus. After the war against the Olympian gods, Zeus condemned him to hold up the vault of ...

The positions of constellations on the Farnese Atlas, a Roman copy of a Greek celestial globe, were analyzed using photogrammetry. Analysis indicates the globe's ...

An ancient mystery may have been solved by LSU Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy Bradley E. Schaefer. Schaefer has discovered that the long-lost star catalog of Hipparchus, which dates back ...

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A Roman statue of Atlas — the mythical titan who carried the heavens on his shoulders — holds clues to the long-lost work of the ancient astronomer Hipparchus, an astronomical historian said Tuesday.

In a sunlit gallery of the Museo Archeologico Nazionale in Italy, astronomer Brad Schaefer came face to face with an ancient statue known as the Farnese Atlas. For centuries, the 7-foot marble figure ...

The Farnese Atlas, the imposing marble sculpture weighing nearly 2,000 kilograms and standing about 2 meters tall, belonging to the collection of the National Archaeological Museum of Naples (Mann), ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Astronomers still talk about Hipparchus's star catalogue, the earliest known compendium of the night sky. Hipparchus, who lived in ...

OSAKA--A work of art from the classical era that drew huge crowds at Osaka Kansai Expo 2025 will not return to Italy when the event closes on Oct. 13, but go on show at another museum here until ...