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The Ancient City Astronomy Club is hosting an event called Night Under the Stars from 8 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Friday at the St.
Today in the history of astronomy, Mars comes within a record-breaking distance of Earth.
X-ray scans reveal rare chemical signatures in asteroid grains that hint at water, organics and the building blocks of life.
Throughout the Earth’s precessional cycle, different stars serve as a pole star, including Thuban, Kochab, Polaris, and Vega.
The UGC’s draft curriculum for undergraduate courses proposes introducing ancient Indian concepts like Kala Ganpana ...
The UGC’s draft curriculum under NEP 2020 proposes the inclusion of ancient Indian knowledge in undergraduate mathematics.
A rediscovery of our civilisational wisdom, paired with modern innovation, can position India as a true Vishwaguru in the ...
The draft also explores cosmic time structures, from Yugas and Kalpas to "Brahma's day (Brahma Varsa)," along with cycles ...
Claudius Ptolemy was a Greek mathematician, astronomer and geographer who lived in the Egyptian city of Alexandria while ...
During the 2025 Smithsonian Folklife Festival, sidewalk astronomers brought a sense of hope into Washington, D.C.
Asteroid Bennu—the target of NASA's OSIRIS-REx sample return mission, led by the University of Arizona—is a mixture of ...
On Episode 174 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and and Tariq Malik are joined by Lynn Harper to discuss some of the amazing ...