An international conference on the origins of galaxies pays tribute to the pioneering scientific cooperation between Muslims, ...

Many ancient Greek scientists believed that Earth was literally at the center of the universe, and the stars ... writings of later scientists such as Ptolemy, who created his own star catalog ...

The Antikythera Mechanism, widely believed to be the world’s first computer, has had a lasting impact on scientists across ...

The world’s largest model world, the Unisphere was ... a steel Earth at the Ptolemaic hub of a Googie-style Jetsons universe. But the Unisphere was as much a pivot in time as in space.

TO even entertain the notion that Scotland is an equal partner in this so-called “union” is to engage in a level of historical illiteracy ...

Team led by UChicago scientist Wendy Freedman using James Webb Space Telescope finds no evidence of tension in Hubble ...

Shocking’ results from a major astronomical study have raised doubts about the standard model of cosmology, forcing ...

There's no shortage of round celestial objects in our universe. Planets, moons and stars all exhibit lovely spherical shapes.

"The appearance of such structures sheds new light on the sorts of mathematical objects that nature is built from." ...

"This shocking result means that we now need to revisit the very foundations of everything we know about cosmology," said the reseachers.