Geographical exploration is a type of quest, the objective being to discover remote lands. One major era, in the history of ...

The interest manifested in this has encouraged him in the composition of the work before us, which it is hoped will have the effect of making the Hindu system of astronomy more generally known ...

following a model suggested 12 centuries before by Alexandrian astronomer Claudius Ptolemy. In the 16th century, Copernicus was part of a growing group of astronomers convinced that the sun is at ...

This constellation is one of the 48 that Ptolemy described almost 2,000 years ago ... It all began with a system introduced by the Greek astronomer Hipparchus in the 2nd century BCE, in which he ...

With no scientific background, he claimed he awoke with intuitive knowledge of the physics of the solar system, and published a book with amateur astronomer Philip Fauth in 1921. One day ...

Legend has it that wishing upon a shooting star makes the wish come true. It is believed to have originated in Europe, when ...

Russell, F.R.S., astronomer royal for New South Wales ... the sun rise on their left hand instead of on their right. And Ptolemy, AD. 170, after describing the Malay Peninsula, says: Beyond ...

The ancient Greek astronomer Ptolemy included Ophiuchus in his list of 48 constellations, documenting it in the second century, and it still is one of the 88 modern-day constellations. There are a few ...

By Islam Salah In the Arab world, stars have always been more than distant points of light—they’ve been guides, storytellers, ...

Jan. 13, 2025 — The name 'blue lurker' might sound like a villainous character from a superhero movie. But it is a rare class of star that NASA's Hubble Space Telescope explored by looking ...

When you gaze up at the constellation Hercules, you are looking out the front window of the spacecraft called Earth. Our planet is hurtling at some 45,000 mph (72,000 km/h) toward the star Lambda ...

Happy New Year! If you are up before dawn this January, look for the bright — but elusive — planet Mercury in the sunrise direction. Try looking about 40 minutes before sunrise; binoculars ...