Written by the former chief historian of NASA, the book examines the evolution of our cosmic understanding—from early civilizations to the present day ...

Synthetic cells could mimic the first sparks that led to our existence. Several Dutch institutions are working together to ...

Thousands of years ago, our ancestors used symbols to track the sale of textile and agricultural products. New research ...

At a time when the passage of time was dictated by the movement of the sun and the seasons, the introduction of “clock time” ...

During Medieval times Christian theologians accepted the Ptolemaic earth centered Greek ... Since meteorites are remnants of our early Solar System, the findings raise the possibility that stars ...

Ptolemaic pharaohs constructed much of this ... that Aristarchus posited a heliocentric solar system and Eratosthenes calculated the circumference of the Earth. Alexandria was where the Hebrew ...

Yet an effort by the pope to slow the public acceleration of Galileo’s scientific theories, introduced in Galileo’s book comparing the Copernican system with the accepted and less truthful Ptolemaic ...

They insisted that the solar system rotated around the earth ... outdated paradigm. Like the Ptolemaic geocentric model of the heavens, it sufficed for some time. But the strategic seascape ...

THE question of the origin of the solar system is one that has been a source of speculation for over a hundred years; but, in spite of the attention that has been devoted to it, no really ...

A mathematician and astronomer of the Renaissance period, Copernicus proposed that the Sun was the center of the solar system ...

Researchers discover that ancient cylinder seals may hold the key to decoding undeciphered proto-cuneiform signs.