India's scientific legacy is both vast and profound. Long before the rise of modern science, ancient Indian sages, ...

The astronomical records of imperial China are some of the most comprehensive archives in the history of science, spanning ...

Ancient Chinese astronomers were careful in how they described celestial phenomena when reporting to the emperor. To ensure ...

The Milky Way may merge with the Large Magellanic Cloud in 2 billion years, not Andromeda, contrary to previous findings.

The oldest representation of the night sky and our Milky Way galaxy was found in an Egyptian sarcophagus, revealing ancient ...

Athens-based independent scholar Demetrius Savvides has shown that in Amphipolis, northern Greece, where the Kastas Monument ...

His unexplored tomb at Nemrut Dağ may show us more about death and worship in ancient Turkey. Several colossal heads that once stood in the mausoleum of Antiochus I of Commagene now lie in front ...

The ancient Greek word daimon—from which the modern "demon" derives—referred to god-like spirits and supernatural forces. While a daimon could be good or evil, the latter was a malevolent ...

In this episode of Silk Road Adventures, we explore how Bukhara’s ancient water systems still shape life today, as a city in the desert adapts to the challenges of climate change. Bukhara ...

But a new study claims one of the world’s oldest surviving star catalogs — the Star Manual of Master Shi — might be more ancient than we thought. It might rewrite the history of astronomy ...

“This showcases there are yet more examples of these animals, specifically, forms that were active marine predators, filling in more of the picture of how this ancient marine ecosystem ...

R esearchers studying archival radar data from NASA’s Magellan mission have uncovered compelling signs that tectonic activity could still be shaping the surface of Venus today. The findings ...