An Ancient Greek Philosopher Was Exiled for Claiming the Moon Was a Rock, Not a God 2,500 years ago, Anaxagoras correctly determined that the rocky moon reflects light from the sun, allowing him ...

2. The size of the Moon. One of Aristarchus’ books that did survive is about the sizes and distances of the Sun and Moon.In this remarkable treatise, Aristarchus laid out the earliest known ...

On April 8, 2024, a total solar eclipse will be visible across parts of the U.S. As the Earth and moon sweep through space in their annual journey around the sun, the three bodies align in such a ...

Mysterious Antikythera Mechanism may have been an ancient Greek toy, ... By winding a knob on its side, the positions of the sun, moon, Mercury and Venus could be determined for any chosen date.

NASA's Latest Mission to the Moon Is Named After an Ancient Lunar Goddess Turned Feminist Icon Artemis was a major deity in ancient Greece, worshiped at least as early as the beginning of the ...

One ancient Chinese record — likely referring to a solar eclipse that occurred in 2134 B.C. — reported that "the sun and the Moon did not meet harmoniously." ...

Starting in the 1950s, many rockets and launch systems were named after Greek sky deities, like Atlas and Saturn, whose Greek name is Cronos. Atlas and Saturn weren’t just gods, they were Titans.