The Imago Mundi is more than just a map; it is a reflection of the Babylonian worldview, which was a blend of practical geography, mythology, and astronomy. Researchers have noted that the map offers ...

Long before telescopes and satellites, beneath the sweeping skies of southern England, ancient people gathered enormous ...

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While it's much smaller than the largest supermassive black holes detected, it's still a whopper considering how early in the ...

The school-bus-sized observatory launched on April 24, 1990 and overcame early setbacks to become one of the most ...

Did Copernicus borrow his cosmological theory from an earlier Muslim scientist? New research finds striking resemblance between Copernicus’s heliocentric treatise and a Muslim scientist’s cosmological ...

Apr. 16, 2025 — Astronomers have detected the most promising signs yet of a possible biosignature outside the solar system, although they remain ...

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Which was odd, in a way, because for most of its long history, astronomy has been primarily an amateur pursuit. The foundations of modern astronomy were laid largely by amateurs. Nicolaus ...

The Shiras Planetarium was built attached to the new Marquette Senior High School in 1964. Superintendent Henry Bothwell had ...