See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. An ancient book on astronomy from the 1500s sold for more than £10,000 ...

The Greek astronomer Hipparchus, who lived around 120 BCE, usually gets credit for discovering the equinoxes and their relationship to the zodiac constellations. But in a controversial new study, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Image Credit: Shutterstock. Long before anyone could download a stargazing app or buy a telescope from a department store, ancient ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. An astrophysicist has shed new light on how the ancient Egyptians ...

The study of celestial objects ran throughout ancient Egyptian culture. Religious events were fixed by the movements of the sun and moon, star charts were carved into the lids of tombs, and the ...

The Moon does not travel across the sky at a constant pace. Its speed changes throughout each orbit, a detail ancient astronomers noticed long before they had the mathematics to explain it fully. More ...

In 1900 diver Elias Stadiatis, clad in a copper and brass helmet and a heavy canvas suit, emerged from the sea shaking in fear and mumbling about a “heap of dead naked people.” He was among a group of ...

Some of the world's oldest cave paintings have revealed how ancient people had relatively advanced knowledge of astronomy. The artworks, at sites across Europe, are not simply depictions of wild ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) may have found a clue to one of astronomy’s biggest mysteries: where the first massive ...

Initially a cosmic curiosity, the night sky was eventually decoded by ancient peoples, making astronomy one of (if not the) oldest science. Millions of years ago, ancient humans living on the African ...