Described in the Gospel of Matthew as the celestial sign that led the Magi to the newborn Jesus, the star stands at the ...

It’s more than the 50 stars on the flag—the American story is suffused with celestial imagery and astronomical symbols.

How galaxies assemble their stars and grow over billions of years remains one of the central questions in astronomy. Recent ...

Every so often, social media users are treated to a legendary day of jokes and memes — and a video from a Coldplay concert at ...

The team of archaeologists led by Dr. Alexander Tamm (FAU, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg) and Prof. Dirk ...

In the early fourth century A.D., Rome was notorious for persecuting Christians. Yet the night before battle, Constantine ...

David Rankin of the Catalina Sky Survey in Arizona spends nights scanning the solar system for potentially catastrophic space ...

The winter solstice is the astronomical start of winter in the Northern Hemisphere, when the North Pole is tilted farthest ...

Excavations at Abu Ghurab reveal the long-lost riverside gateway to an Old Kingdom sun temple, complete with a public ...