Shi Shen's Star Catalogue, also called the Star Manual of Master Shi, was deduced to be the world's oldest by scientists ...

Initially, the astronomer who first made note of this fuzzy-looking glowing cluster thought it might be a nebula. But it’s ...

An Egyptian sarcophagus shows the sky goddess Nut as being covered in stars and having a dark, undulating curve running ...

This story appears in the June 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine. When pieces of an ancient two-handled cup were found in Greece in 1990, archaeologists could identify the animals painted ...