Ancient Greek astronomers were the first to gather knowledge about space exploration. Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos could ...

The star catalog was made by ancient Greek astronomer Hipparchus around 162 and 127 BCE, 1,400 years before the telescope. Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Email address Sign up Thank you!

In his work The Histories, ancient Greek historian Herodotus wrote that the Greeks borrowed much of their knowledge, ...

Incorporating Greek philosophy The word “cosmos” comes from ancient Greece, where it signified not simply the universe, but the universe as a harmonious, well-ordered whole.

The 2,000-year-old Antikythera mechanism found in an ancient Greek shipwreck has been dubbed the “first computer,” using a wind-up dial system to track the celestial time of the Sun, Moon and ...

An international team, including astronomers from Keele University, has performed a unique cosmic test to measure the mass of ...

THE traditional view that the knowledge of astronomy of the Greece of classical times had been derived from Egypt, ... Astronomy in Ancient Egypt. Nature 144, 1041–1042 (1939) ...