Astrology, the belief that the positions and movements of celestial bodies can influence human lives and events on Earth, has ...

The translation of ancient Assyrian writing into modern languages was a challenge that had long vexed historians. Three ...

The rotation of the moon and other planets provides a natural rhythm and framework for understanding time, nature and human ...

The alignment only happens at special times, and that’s because the orbit of the Moon around the Earth is slanted with ...

A team of archaeologists in Iraq, led by Sebastian Rey, the British Museum’s curator of ancient Mesopotamia, has uncovered compelling evidence of the empire’s formidable bureaucracy.

Marked with the administrative details of government, the tablets have illuminated the complicated bureaucracy of an ancient Mesopotamian civilization. The tablets were discovered in the Sumerian ...

With that idea in mind, as a historian of science, my best answer to the question of what the first scientists discovered is Babylonian astronomy. The Babylonians lived from about 2,500 to 4,000 ...

A deep dive into the star-forming Flame Nebula by the James Webb Space Telescope has revealed free-floating, Jupiter-size objects that could help answer that key question in astronomy.

A total lunar eclipse will flush the moon red Thursday night into Friday morning across the country including Boston, where viewers will have to hope for a break in the clouds to see the spectacle.

"I think that the simplest explanation of the rotating universe is the universe was born in a rotating black hole." Without a doubt, since its launch, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has ...