New research suggests the interior of Mars is far messier than scientists once believed. Instead of neat, layered structures, ...

What do we actually know about how people of the past understood the sky and developed a cosmology? When it comes to studying ancient astronomy, we must be careful not to assume too much.

Using data from NASA’s InSight lander, Constantinos Charalambous from the Imperial College of London and colleagues studied ...

Initially a cosmic curiosity, the night sky was eventually decoded by ancient peoples, making astronomy one of (if not the) oldest science.

Using data from NASA’s retired InSight lander, two separate teams of researchers found evidence of a sluggish Martian mantle ...

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

Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, the technical journal of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP), has been published regularly since 1889, as part of the ASP’s mission ...

Despite the ancient Egyptians' advanced knowledge of astronomy, the role of the Milky Way in their culture remains a mystery.

A SMALL collection of papers recently published in Meddelande Fran Lunds Astronomiska Observatorium makes an interesting contribution to the study of the early history of astronomy. In an article ...

A SERIES of articles entitled "Man and His Expanding Universe" is appearing in Sky and Telescope, the first of which, in the December issue, deals with Egyptian astronomy. As the life of the ...