A set of ancient Babylonian tablets that describe how to track Jupiter across the sky have revealed an astronomical technique 1,500 years ahead of its time. Jupiter's erratic pace across the sky ...

There is an ancient Greek scientist who discovered the existence of polar day and polar night before people even knew the ...

But in a controversial new study, researchers point to ancient cave paintings as proof that people who lived nearly 40,000 years ago already had this advanced knowledge of astronomy.

Journal for the History of Astronomy was founded in 1970 and is the only journal devoted to the history of astronomy from earliest times to the present, and to history in the service of astronomy.

We have Ancient Greeks including Xenophanes, Democritus and Apollonius to thank for some of the ideas that underpin our study of astronomy ...

A SMALL collection of papers recently published in Meddelande Fran Lunds Astronomiska Observatorium makes an interesting contribution to the study of the early history of astronomy. In an article ...

The ancient book was published before Galileo was born, making it one of the first astronomy texts published in the English language.

In the midst of South Korea’s phenomenal growth, technological and otherwise, one must remember that ancient Korea’s interest in astronomy rivaled that of China and Japan. And that legacy ...