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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.