So long as the weather cooperates, Saturn, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and the moon will be visible Sunday evening during an open house at the Indiana University Kokomo Observatory. The open house begins at ...

An event called a "ring plane crossing" will occur between Saturn and Earth on March 23, 2025, when Saturn's rings will ...

Towards the end of the month, Mercury appears in the evening sky, and climbs up past Saturn. In the dusk glow, you may be ...

Jingjue in Niya was one of 36 vanished states in the western region of ancient China. Important heritage and artifacts from ...

U.K. scientists say they have made a historic breakthrough by making the first image of the inside of a scroll carbonized by ...

A solar eclipse in the year 2471 BC may have influenced architectural change in Egypt, challenging Pharaonic traditions.

The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...

Planetary hours, rooted in ancient astrology, align daily activities with the celestial rhythms of the planets. By ...

To learn about an asteroid – a rocky or metallic object in orbit around the Sun – we started with a study of meteorites ... CI chondrites are rich in clay and formed when ice melted in an ancient ...

"The ditches were subsequently closed.” Speaking with Salon, Iversen brought the Neolithic rituals to life by describing the elaborate ceremonies that would have been practiced by the ancient humans.

Mysterious mounds on Mars were formed by ancient water, says a British study. These mounds are all that is left of a landscape, roughly the size of the UK, that has been almost entirely eroded away. A ...