In 1900, a remarkable discovery was made when divers stumbled upon the Antikythera Mechanism amidst a shipwreck in the ...

The star catalog was made by ancient Greek astronomer Hipparchus around 162 and 127 BCE, 1,400 years before the telescope. By Laura Baisas Published Oct 20, 2022 1:00 PM EDT Add Popular Science (opens ...

The ancient Greek astronomer Hipparchus catalogued the coordinates of the stars. Now, his efforts have finally been uncovered. This cross-fade montage shows a detail of the palimpsest under ordinary ...

Researchers from the CNRS, Sorbonne Université and Tyndale House (affiliated with the University of Cambridge) have recently found fragments of the Star Catalogue composed by the Greek astronomer ...

“This new evidence is the most authoritative to date and allows major progress in the reconstruction of Hipparchus’ Star Catalogue,” reads a study on the find published in the journal History of ...

Researchers from the CNRS, Sorbonne Université and Tyndale House (affiliated with the University of Cambridge) have recently found fragments of the Star Catalogue composed by the Greek astronomer ...

A trio of researchers from CNRS, UMR, Tyndale House and Sorbonne Université, respectively, have found what might be the famous Hipparchus's map of the stars. In their paper published in Journal for ...

Earth idea is much older than the modern flat-Earth movement. Its history passes through ancient religion, early astronomy and some unexpected reinterpretations.

In 1901, a group of sponge divers discovered, off the Greek island of Antikythera, the remains of a Roman shipwreck. Among amphorae and statues they found a corroded block of bronze and wood that for ...

Jo Marchant is a freelance science writer based in London. A medieval parchment from a monastery in Egypt has yielded a surprising treasure. Hidden beneath Christian texts, scholars have discovered ...

At SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in Menlo Park on Wednesday morning, researchers focused a powerful X-ray machine on pages of parchment from a medieval desert monastery, looking to reveal ...