The translation of ancient Assyrian writing into modern languages was a challenge that had long vexed historians. Three ...

Let's celebrate April first as "Healthy Skepticism Day", especially with fantastical astronomy stories and images online ...

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Google CEO Sundar Pichai thanked SpaceX for launching the first FireSat satellite, part of a 50-satellite constellation designed to detect wildfires as small as 5x5 meters using AI. The launch ...

When a Wisconsin shipyard won the contract to build a new class of Navy frigate in 2020, the project was meant to address an embarrassing reality: The U.S. is now the global laggard in building ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) The Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of a spiral galaxy, NGC 4900, and a nearby star in the constellation Virgo. Despite appearing close, the star is ...

A constellation of satellites orbiting 250 miles above Earth’s surface shows how solar and wind have taken off in recent years: Here’s what renewable energy sites looked like eight years ago.

The tablets were discovered in the Sumerian site of Girsu, called Tello today. Settled around 4500 B.C.E. in modern-day Iraq, Sumer is the world’s oldest known civilization. During the third ...

Such a purposeful change of the night sky into a canvas for commercial advertising “is a terrifying problem for astronomy research,” says astronomer Samantha Lawler of the University of Regina ...

Rocket Lab launched the final five satellites for the French company Kinéis' "Internet of Things" constellation tonight (March 17). An Electron vehicle carrying five of Kinéis' "Internet of ...

The discovered clay tablets represent the state archives of Girsu, an ancient Sumerian city now known as Tello, Iraq. The tablets were found within the remains of a state archive building ...

With that idea in mind, as a historian of science, my best answer to the question of what the first scientists discovered is Babylonian astronomy. The Babylonians lived from about 2,500 to 4,000 ...