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 ...

A researcher claims the Great Pyramid of Giza contains a hidden mathematical code linked to the Moon, stars and planets, but the theory remains unproven.

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 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 ...

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 ...

There is an ancient Greek scientist who discovered the existence of polar day and polar night before people even knew the ...