“The city [Ephesus] was filled with confusion, and the people rushed with one accord into the theater, seizing Gaius and Aristarchus, the Macedonians, Paul’s traveling companions.” ―Acts 19:29 ...

Whenever I want to refresh my lunar observing, to see the Moon in new and uncommon ways, I wait for its phase to wane and point my telescope to the lunar terminator — that bleak and shadowy domain ...

Seleucus of Seleucia was an ancient astronomer who defended heliocentrism, arguing that Earth orbits the Sun and rotates on ...

When asked who was the first to propose the heliocentric theory—that is, the one in which the Sun is the center of the universe and the planets revolve around it—the usual answer is Copernicus.

There is a saying from an unknown author that reads, “Many great ideas have been lost because the people who had them, couldn’t handle being laughed at.”More than 2,200 years ago, Greek astronomer and ...

A four-legged robot trained through artificial intelligence has learned the same lesson as the Apollo astronauts—that jumping can be the best way to move around on the surface the moon. An update on ...

Nasa's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter flew over the moon at just 16.2 miles up to capture shots of the huge Aristarchus crater on the moon - a feature so massive it's visible to the naked eye from Earth ...