Some people are sharing this false claim online with the wider idea that it discredits scientific proof of the planet’s spherical shape. However, pictures showing Earth’s curvature have been ...

Through persistent observation, Anaxagoras came to believe that the moon was a rock, not totally unlike the Earth, and he even described mountains on the lunar surface. The sun, he thought ...

Chunks of earth whirled outward became stars and the sun and the moon. Anaxagoras’ nous was the one distinctive ingredient in his system. Other stuff was all mixed with everything else.

The irregularly fractured surface in today’s Featured Image is on top of a north-western oriented slightly elongated mound on the floor of crater Anaxagoras (image center is 73.748°N ...