For decades, a fractured Ancient Greek clay wine cup sitting in a museum was considered typical of pottery featuring rows of exotic animals.

We connected with Florian Winkler to learn how he created such an elegant and informative map that invites exploration.

An international collaboration of scientists from Durham University in the UK, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and École ...

If you look at any star atlas published before 1930, you will see what appear to be random lines defining the constellations. Before this date, constellation boundaries had not been formalized. Modern ...

Researchers are using X-rays to discover invisible markings left on ancient parchment containing information from the Greek ...

Scientists have created the highest resolution map of the dark matter that threads through the universe—showing its influence on the formation of stars, galaxies and planets.

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A new comet approaching the sun has caught the attention of astronomers, primarily because of its lineage. It appears to ...

Published in Nature Astronomy, the new map uses fresh observations by the James Webb Space Telescope, aimed at a well-studied patch of sky known as the COSMOS field. Using Webb’s crisp images, the ...

Using observations from the James Webb Space Telescope in a patch of the sky covering almost three times the area of the full ...

In a monastery library on the Sinai Peninsula, a devotional handbook by the monk John Climacus sat quietly for centuries ...

An American high school student has stunned the scientific world by developing an algorithm to map 1.5 million previously ...