In January, while examining ancient texts at Italy’s National Central Library of Florence, historian Ivan Malara found an ...

On Nov. 17, 1966, the Leonids put on one of the greatest meteor shows in recorded history, during which eyewitnesses reported a sky that seemed to “rain shooting stars.” Observers in North America ...

The renowned physicist, mathematician, and philosopher would later reject the ideas presented in this very book.

In 1669, French-Italian astronomer Giovanni Cassini arrived at the still-under-construction Paris Observatory as its new director. He quickly talked Louis XIV’s minister of finance into buying a ...

The earliest cosmological ideas -- The early Greek philosophers -- The Pythagorean school -- Plato -- The homocentric spheres of Eudoxus -- Aristotle -- Herakleides and Aristarchus -- The theory of ...

pt. I. Ancient astronomy, from its origins to the end of the Middle Ages. The origins of astronomy -- Primitive astronomy in China, Chaldea and Egypt -- The cosmology of primitive peoples -- The ...

Women and ethnic minority groups are still significantly underrepresented in astronomy and geophysics despite attempts to bring about change over the past decade, research has shown.