Before the stars were named, there was only 'Wuji'—the infinite void. But within that darkness, a cosmic balance was forming ...

"Cosmic archaeologists" have discovered an iron-deficient second-generation star, which provides evidence of how ancient ...

To understand how we started counting, and still count today, 24 hours in a day, 60 minutes in an hour and 60 seconds in a minute, though, we need to wind the clock back to an era before the dawn of ...

The Maya civilisation is known for its art and architecture. But we’re discovering Maya astronomy was even more advanced than ...

The transition from mythology to rational, scientific thought in Ancient Greece set the foundation for Western civilization.

The oldest stars in the Milky Way are forcing a fresh look at one of cosmology’s biggest arguments. If some of them are about 13.

Discovered in the Pictor II dwarf galaxy, star PicII-503 has an extreme deficiency in iron—less than 1/40,000th of the sun.

An Egyptian-German archaeological mission has unearthed a staggering 13,000 inscribed pottery fragments, known as ostraca, at the ancient site of Athribis in Sohag, Upper Egypt, including over 130 ...

VGTel, Inc. (OTCID: VGTL) today announced the release of initial findings from its previously disclosed electroencephalogram ...

Still in its original galaxy, a rare holdout from the second generation of stars sheds new light on the origins of the ...

Utahraptor State Park is named for a famous dinosaur. But it has even more to offer.

In the figure of Enheduanna, we see a powerful figure of great creativity, whose passionate praise of the goddess of love ...