Over thousands of years, various cultures have developed calendars based on astronomical observations, leading to diverse ...

In 1882, the British Museum acquired the oldest known map of the world, which was carved into a clay tablet from Babylon and ...

It’s back: Astronomy magazine’s free downloadable Sky Guide, your preview of everything happening in the sky next year. Mars opens 2025 by reaching opposition the night of Jan. 15/16 ...

Across the past century science has reached an understanding of the cosmos that is as profound as it is precise. Much remains unknown, such as the true nature of the dark matter that dominates ...

There are no preserved rulebooks – with the notable exception of the Royal Game of Ur from ancient Mesopotamia, whose long-lost rules were deciphered in 2007 from a cuneiform tablet in the ...

New research led by University of Glasgow has helped shed light on the origins of the earliest governing institutions in the world. Excavations conducted at the ancient site of Shakhi Kora in ...

A tablet bearing a previously unknown ancient script has been discovered in the Caucasus region, a study has reported. The book-sized tablet—made of basalt, a type of volcanic rock—features 60 ...

NASA’s Artemis program—the flagship U.S. space-exploration effort—is facing fresh delays in its missions to fly astronauts to the moon. The second Artemis mission is now slated to occur in ...

Modern and ancient Mesopotamian emotions reveal striking similarities but also major differences. Credit: Juha M. Lahnakoski et. al / CC BY 4.0 A groundbreaking study has revealed how emotions were ...

I don’t often begin a review by saying that a product has wooed me, but the Celestron Origin Home Observatory has done just that. Not that I’m surprised. Since it first introduced the ...

Credit Figure: Modern/PNAS: Lauri Nummenmaa et al., Mesopotamian: Juha Lahnakoski. Happiness ‘lights up’ similar areas on both modern and ancient body maps, with the exception of the liver, which was ...

A multidisciplinary team of researchers studied a large body of texts to find out how people in the ancient Mesopotamian region (within modern day Iraq) experienced emotions in their bodies ...