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

Plus: A solar eclipse and an occultation of the Pleiades as our satellite skims through several constellations in the sky ...

This so-called Geocentric model was the construction of famous Greek mathematician, astronomer Ptolemy. The model, though invaluable in helping to predict the positions of the stars and planets, had ...

ASTROLOGY was an integral part of astronomy and science from Ptolemy onwards. Many astrologers lived before A.D. 170, when Ptolemy flourished at Alexandria ; but he conveniently dates the ...

Despite centuries of efforts to map our planet precisely, our view of the world will always be political and imperfect. Donald Trump’s shocking renaming of the ‘Gulf of America’ is just the latest rem ...

Not only were their nursing journals delivered by subscription among the magazines on our coffee table, but books about all the sciences, with my dad particularly interested in astronomy ... and ...

Not only were their nursing journals delivered by subscription among the magazines on our coffee table, but books about all the sciences, with my dad particularly interested in astronomy.

Aristarchus proposed this idea around the 3rd century BC. However, the Greek astronomer Ptolemy’s geocentric model dominated science for a millennium. Seleucus supported Aristarchus’ model and ...