NASA’s Solar System Exploration website notes these names, rooted in Latin, persisted due to historical inertia despite varied ancient names.

While traveling the Greek world in the 2nd century CE, the geographer Pausanias visited the statue of Zeus at Olympia. The ...

With an atmosphere, by mass, of primarily hydrogen (76 per cent) and helium (24 per cent), and by volume of 89 per cent ...

It’s kind of intense. However, Jupiter’s move into Cancer is a favorable one because the ancients called Jupiter “the great ...

The King of the Planets teams up with an exceedingly narrow crescent moon for the last time this year in the evening sky on ...

The oldest representation of the night sky and our Milky Way galaxy was found in an Egyptian sarcophagus, revealing ancient ...

This fanciful yet scientifically guided tale describes a visit to the Moon, and is considered by many the first work of ...

I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also apply to mid-northern latitudes in the ...

Standing in front of the cascade of crimson curtains on the balcony of Saint Peter’s on the evening of May 8, with an ...

Shivaashtakam is one of the most powerful mantras written to sing the glory of Lord Shivaits said that a devotee who sings it with full devotion after taking bath and wearing clean white clothes goes ...

Artist Tracey Emin has unveiled her first piece of public art in Liverpool on Thursday. The Roman Standard - which features a small bird on top of a four-metre high bronze pole - is a tribute to the ...