Long before the gods of Olympus or Rome, ancient Indo-European speakers likely worshiped a sky father known as Dyeus Pater. This reconstructed deity left linguistic traces across Sanskrit ...

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 ...

Ancient Greek astronomers likely observed Uranus as a star, but limited tools and geocentric views kept them from recognizing ...

I totally respect your opinion on the names. You’re allowed to have your own opinion, but I actually don’t care what it is," ...

included Jupiter, the sky god who oversaw all aspects of life; Juno, the chief goddess who was particularly associated with the lives of women; and Minerva, the goddess of wisdom. As Roman power ...

As Father’s Day approaches, many will pause to honor paternal love, sacrifice, and legacy. But beneath the surface of ...

Photograph by Nico Tondini / robertharding.com Archaeologists have focused attention on two sacred precincts dedicated to Anu, Sumerian god of the sky ... the Eastern Roman Empire and the ...

The nights surrounding June 7 will see Jupiter and Mercury crowd together close to the horizon in the northwestern sky.

The solar system’s largest and smallest planets meet in the evening sky, standing 2° apart shortly after sunset.

Enjoy a close conjunction of the solar system’s smallest and largest planet just days before the Full Strawberry Moon this ...

Dark matter affects how stars move within galaxies, how galaxies build up over time, and how everything in the universe is held together—but no existing tool has directly detected it. While dark ...