The moon's near and far sides exhibit striking asymmetry—from topography and crustal thickness to volcanic activity—yet the ...

Six years ago, a Dutch-led telescope on the Chinese Chang’e-4 demonstrated that it is possible to do radio astronomy from ...

Astronomers want to unlock the secrets of the "Cosmic Dawn" by sending a miniature spacecraft to listen out for an "ancient ...

Using an engineering feat never before accomplished scientists have created artificial solar eclipses, so that they can view ...

Particular stars called Cepheid variables allow astronomers to determine distance, and Hubble spotted one of these within M31 ...

A staged legal proceeding in a small town became the catalyst for a century of culture wars.

New Vera C. Rubin Observatory will allow unprecedented exploration of the cosmos, data and image collection without need to ...

Often dismissed as a manual for sexual positions, the Kamasutra is, in fact, a radical text that champions women’s pleasure and autonomy.

According to the Cambridge catalogue, MS. 75 was supposed to be a treatise on the astrolabe (forebear of the sextant) by an astronomer named Simon Bredon. But, in all the 400-odd years the ...

Prof. Hogendijk’s interest in Islamic astrolabes goes back to 1988 when he started holding “interactive astrolabe workshops. I chose an old Islamic astrolabe, for example, a Yemeni astrolabe from the ...

The University of Sharjah hosted an astrolabe workshop in which western scientists showed participants how an astronomical instrument made by an ancient Muslim scholar nearly 1,000 years ago ...

The University of Sharjah hosted an astrolabe workshop in which western scientists showed participants how an astronomical instrument made by an ancient Muslim scholar nearly 1,000 years ago measured ...