The 585 B.C. Eclipse of Peace turned fear into ceasefire, as a solar eclipse halted war and reshaped ancient views of the heavens.

Incredibly, scientists and mathematicians in ancient Greece made some of the most significant astronomical discoveries ...

What a wonderful question! The simple answer is that they relied on centuries of previous observations. Remember, even computers have to be programmed with the right data to produce future times of ...

In ancient Egypt, a whale-sized serpent leaps from the depths of the Nile to swallow their sun god, Ra. The Pharaohs, who considered themselves to be direct descendants of Ra, thought it their duty to ...

For over a century, this hand-cranked bronze device from ancient Greece, the Antikythera, modeled the Sun, Moon and eclipses.