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 ...

In Ancient Greece, physicians believed that the moon and the monthly menstrual cycle were linked. During a woman’s period of menstruation, she was thought to be spiritually and mentally powerful.

For the first time, Fort Ancient will present a Moonrise Viewing event, and community members are invited to participate.

The film takes us on a journey through humanity’s evolving view of our home planet—from ancient beliefs that the Earth was flat and supported by gigantic elephants and turtles, to the ...

From the Moon’s size to the first calculator, the ancients made some jawdropping discoveries without modern technology.

CME outbursts typically peak every 11 years or so, when the sun enters the part of its natural activity cycle known as the solar maximum — the time when magnetic activity in the corona is in ...

Scientists have finally demystified the incredible workings of a 2,000-year-old astronomical calculator built by ancient Greeks. A new analysis of the Antikythera Mechanism, a clock-like machine ...

The sun and moon were understood to be a married couple working out their issues! The next solar eclipse is happening on Monday, April 8 across much of North America.

Who Is Artemis? 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 ...

The sun was worshiped as a deity in many cultures – and witnessing it get extinguished could be a particularly terrifying event.

These terrible events, according to ancient Nordic lore, are the result of two sky wolves, Skoll and Hati, who are always chasing the moon and sun, respectively. When the sun is caught, darkness ...